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... Lodge. Alnwick Mourns Duke Killed In Flanders A LNWICK was a town of mourning to-day for the Duke of Northumberland, who, as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was killed the thick of the rearguard action Flanders. Flags were flown half-mast from public ...
... heavy. The battalion was among the last to evacuate Dunkirk, and in the delaying rearguard fighting it was engaged in the losses were again considerable, 26 officers and 450 men. From the grim sands Flanders the survivors came eventually to a certain ...
... of Stockton Town Council stood in silence last night a tribute to the 30,000 men killed, wounded or missing in the evacuation of Flanders; and as an expression of thankfulness' that many as 335.000 had been successfully brought home. On behalf of the Royal ...
... Meanwhile the German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by ming flood waters, which Allied engineers have released over the Flanders plain. has redoubled its efforts to out off the French rearguard, which is fighting its way to the mast. This force—part ...
... that famous Highland regiment, the Black Watch, and such were entitled to wear ihe Red Hackle won by their parent unit in Flanders in 1745, The 25th April. 1940, they arrived in France working on aerodromes and training. When Jerry made his break-through ...
... Thomson was killed in action near Moeres in Flanders during the Dunkirk evacuation. He was a machine-gunner and a member of the rearguard action. He was killed less than six hours before the last troops from Flanders left Dunkirk shore. . He, with a small ...
... officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, made a 50 miles tour of a Division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went he was impressed, he said, by ■ the excellent health and spirits of the troops after their other ordeal in Flanders (Continued in Next Column ...
... land, air and sea, and who also took part in the Dunkirk evacuation .and if so wil Ithe medal be presented to British, French and Belgian allied men. Percy Main Soldiers Safely Back From Flanders E. MILLER J. C. OSBORNE . • 'l4 J . Mk *wen J. W. SCARFY ...
... Argentina masses of printed propaganda prepared by the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. Evacuation Defied Air Blitzkrieg IT'ROM a military point of view the evacuation from Flanders —most difficult of all tasks—.has been carried out with great success against the ...
... damage w as done to the State apartments. The residents, staff, and most of the palace art treasures had previously been evacuated. One beautiful old Queen Anne house in Kensington Square, dating from 1698. was demolished, but the house in the same square ...
... now in hospital recovering from wounds received in Flanders. Sergeant Robson's parents live at 16, Lord Street. Newcastle. Hobson. Died in Hospital After being severely wounded in the battles in Flanders, Pte. Donald Stewart. of 21. Whitehall Road, Gateshead ...
... of a batch of wounded men, though this meant his capture. His brother, OEptain S. T. Irwin. R.A.M.C., was also in Flanders and was evacuated. Their father is a Belfast surgeon. ...