... those who have been successfully evacuated. SOUTH BOLDON MAN MISSING Councillor and Hero of Last War The War Office has announced that Captain J. Gordon Durham, of South Boldon, is missing, believed killed, in Flanders. Captain Gordon Durham, whose home ...

... carrying important despatches from Mr. Bevin s Talk to Socialists General Weygand to Lord Gort at the height of the fighting in Flanders in 1940. General Billotte was killed in a motor accident, and his loss a tragedy for France. It is possible that if the ...

... Fifth Columnists or parachuters, and 500 of them have already passed their medical tests. back from Flanders. A B.E.F, soldier gets rid of that Flanders Mud with the help of a comrade at a rest camp for troops ■P .j^n ...

... after the Dunkirk evacuation Britain had less than 100 tanks available is a startling reminder of what is still one of the greatest wonders of the world, states th«e New York Herald Tribune. “It has been said elsewhere that the Flanders campaign and Dunkirk ...

... against a foe which studies these questions meticulously. SHIELDS MEN BACK FROM FLANDERS Many North Shields men are among the B.E.F. who have been successfully evacuated from Flanders. Members of the Northern Press who are reported safe in England are . Sergt ...

... as usual, was too small for the job. Twice our troops had to evacuate Holland, our record in land fighting was bad. and the generalship worse. But we never faltered. After every evacuation we went back again, thanks to sea power. The next British landing ...

... applicable to the present day. This week alone duke, an earl, and a viscount have appeared in the British casualty lists from Flanders, proving once more that democracy stands for all of us. It also testifies the falsity of the one-time jibe that the rich ...

... SHIELDS MAN GETS M.C. AWARD Flanders Bravery Rewarded SECOND:LIEUT. A, W. Leinster, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. who has been awarded the MC.. is a North Shields man. On May 31 at Moeres there was a gap in the defensive position on the Lingefoot Canal ...

... resistance in northern France and Flanders received in London—was retold today by Mr B. S. Townroe speaking on behalf of the United Associations of Great Britain and France to boys of King Edward VI. school, Southampton. evacuated to Poole. Dorset. W.A.A.F. ...

... Hong-Kong, and the military evacuation Shanghai have been under review by the War Cabinet. is understood the British Government intends to maintain a firm attitude, although it will continue to take such action the evacuation of women and children from ...

... Fighting with a steadiness never excelled in military history. Allied troops are continuing their grim rearguard action in Flanders. THOUSANDS British troops continued to arrive in England to-day, and Estimates of the number who have returned vary from ...

... Papagos foresaw the future and it is said that it was he who advised that it would be better for the Greeks to cover a British evacuation and then to make the best possible terms. The King of the Hellenes and Gen. Wilson, however felt that the British should ...