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SWAM OUT TO SHIP, BOMBED

... that her husband. Private Thomas Rutherford, is reported missing after assisting in the defence of Calais during the Flanders evacuation. Private Thomas Rutherford, who is 35, is esperienced soldier, having served for seven years as a regular soldier, five ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 307 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

J. L

... impressions of the homecoming of the British Expeditionary Force from their grim battle in Northern France and Flanders proof this evacuation is of the spirit of British soldiers and British sailors. An Army Corps commander said to me soon after he stepped ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Housekeeper-in-Chief

... here and elsewhere. WE have now made up all our losses in stores and equipment which resulted from the fighting in Flanders and the evacuation from Dunkirk, though this has naturally iheant that other equipment which would have been ready by now has had to ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1941
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 421 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

of Flanders

... the Dunkirk perimeter and were steadily evacuated, it is obvious he wanted to stay with them to the last man, but he had orders from the Government, which specifically told him that as soon the 8.E.F., by evacuation, fell below a strength of three divisions ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1941
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 728 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FRANCE & FLANDERS

... FRANCE & FLANDERS heroically over the same ground 25 years ago. The scene of battle was set around old ml her places such a« Yprea, Bnelen. Wytschaete, Boesvnghe and Poperinghe. In the words of Mr. Winston Churchill the evacuation from Dunkirk symbolised ...

Published: Monday 13 January 1941
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 105 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Fought In Flanders

... Fought In Flanders corners and a patrol came down the street. Along chai-ged the unexpected Bren carrier, spinting fire right and left, bowling over a score enemy and emerging beyond the village without receiving a shot. But its crew’s adventures weren’t ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 400 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRKand the three weeks before THE despatches of Lord Gort, who was Comviander-in-Chief of the B.E.F. during ..

... Comviander-in-Chief of the B.E.F. during the Battle of Flanders, are to be published to-morrow. They cover the period from the start of the German invasion of the Low Countries to the evacuation, three weeks’ later, of the British forces from Dunkirk ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1941
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TWO AIMS

... Northern Europe more evacuation measures are reported. Preparations for the evacuation of the civil population have been made by the Germans at Thielt in Western Flanders. All German families who removed to Courtrai, also in Western Flanders, after the Ruhr ...

Published: Tuesday 25 April 1944
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 368 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LOST EQUIPMENT

... be paid for other articles of kit and clothing lost. Paris Buses Aided In Flanders Trek Buses which helped refugees to escape from the war shattered towns and villages of Flanders are back on the streets of Paris—some of them still daubed wdith cuude camouflage ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 188 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Killed In*Action

... John Liddle. who was reported missinß in Norway on April ‘2B. Is now in a Nazi prison camp. Wounded in Flanders Wounded in the evacuation from Flanders. Corporal Ernest Wylie, whose home address is at la. Exeter Street. Gateshead. has arrived safely in ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PREMIER'S REVIEW

... acceptable or unpalatable, remains unsullied, and Mr. Churchill minimised nothing. He did not call evacuation a victory, and plainly said that evacuation will not win wars. Equally, he showed that no other alternative was open to the Allied forces after ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 231 | Page: 4 | Tags: none