PARCEL SURVIVED FLANDERS – BATTLE

... PARCEL SURVIVED FLANDERS - BATTLE ~ A birthday present from her soldier son, battered and torn after coming through the battle of Flanders, has now been received by Mrs A. Greig. 11 Bonnygate, Cupar. iia The parcel was found and sent on by Pte. A. Beal ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRIME MINISTER ON BATTLE OF FLANDERS

... PRIME MINISTER ON BATTLE FLANDERS. THE WITHDRAWAL PROM DUNKIRK. The Prime Minister, in the House of Commons on Tuesday, dealt very fully with the Allied fight in Flanders. Dealing with the defence of Calais, he said: Boulogne and Calais were the scenes ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Dover Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1324 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE BUFFS BRAVE SHOW IN FLANDERS

... of this battalion, the report states, was moved south on the day before the start of the Flanders battle and was involved ni neither the fighting nor the evacuation. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FLANDERS WITHDRAWAL FEAT GOES ON

... arriving in their thousands, and it is hoped that most of the B.E.F. may be evacuated although the difficulties and dangers increase every hour. As it is this mass evacuation is a stupendous feat only made possible by the dauntless efficiency of the Royal ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 802 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE FLANDERS WITHDRAWAL PREMIERS REVIEW OF A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT OVER 335,000 MEN SAVED BUT “WARS NOT WON BY ..

... THE FLANDERS WITHDRAWAL PREMIERS REVIEW OF A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT OVER 335,000 MEN SAVED BUT “WARS NOT WON BY EVACUATIONS Cheers greeted the Prime Minister when he rose in the House of Commons yesterday to make his war statement. said; Ftom the moment the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 277 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BATTLE INFERNO IN FLANDERS

... BATTLE INFERNO IN FLANDERS Germans’ Terrific Losses Continue pHHODGH the strategic silence -*■ which is being maintained on details of fighting across the English; Channel, these facts emerged to-day. (1) Calais is still in Allied hands, despite German ...

ICAR SAFE HOME FROM FLANDERS

... ICAR SAFE HOME FROM FLANDERS Rev. R. Devenish Says Evacuation Was Answer to Prayer ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Norwood News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 14 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

EXPLOITS OF BLACK WATCH IN FLANDERS

... EXPLOITS OF BLACK WATCH IN FLANDERS Col. Shouted At Enemy Tank I'm British —and Tank Turned T ail Here is a story of the coolness, courage, and imperturbability of British soldiers that thrills the heart. What a picture is conjured up by J. L. Hodsons ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1313 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HEROIC WITHDRAWAL IN FLANDERS

... HEROIC WITHDRAWAL IN FLANDERS (By AUBREY HAMMOND.) • Southern Command, Saturday. WHEN I was the guest of a battalion of the Coldstream Guards to-day I learned details never yet published of its experience in Flanders in those critical days last spring ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 892 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN FLANDERS

... Armies into Flanders in defence of Belgium and Holland May 11. They took over part of the River Dyle line at Louvain, and first met the enemy attempting to pursue his usual tactics of infiltration on May 14. Then began the major tragedy of Flanders —the flooding ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1599 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CEN. 7482. EVACUATION PRAISED

... CEN. 7482. EVACUATION PRAISED “THE ALLIES HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT” New York, Thursday High praise for the Allies’ achievements in evacuating such a large part of the armed forces believed to be trapped in Flanders is contained in the U.S. press. Like ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 269 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

STRONG FLANDERS DEFENCE

... STRONG FLANDERS DEFENCE Desperate Nazi Bid to Overwhelm Allies ENEMY DISREGARDING HEAVY LOSSES Paris, Monday. FIGHTING in the north is increasing In violence, said the of fi cial French military commentator today. He said that in the Battle of Flanders ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1044 | Page: 1 | Tags: none