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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

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

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

VON LEEB DISPLACED

... at Leningrad. Earlier in the war, he fought against the British expeditionary Force in Flanders. It was Von Kuechler that Dunkirk actually fell, after its evacuation bv the British Army. In the Sirxyavino area, the Russians are fighting back to complete ...

Published: Tuesday 29 September 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 124 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Fighf With Prisoner

... Colllngwood Street, Felling, lately back from Flanders, Is able to tell his relatives and friends is one of liow he got hand wounded drafted France immediately. His wife, who gave their house up when she was evacuated, is living with her sisterin-law in Chepstow ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Winlaton Man Missing

... 15. Cromwell Avenue, Wlnlaton, Blaydon, that her son. Private Richard Rogerson, was missing when his regiment was evacuated from Flanders. He was 28 years of age and spent seven years abroad with richard rogersox the Army. Husband In Hospital A long spell ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Grand Cross Award

... Cross Award Last week he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour for gallant work in connection with the evacuation of Flanders. Now 60. he was until a year ago Commander-in-Chief of the French Mediterranean Fleet, and w'hen war broke out was ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES FIGHT WITH CLOSE UNITY

... was no sign of the third. Steadiness Unequalled It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders a combined Allied operation, during which the British and French are working in the closest unity with a steadiness never ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MURTON PRESENTATION

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 479 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ONE ON KILLED BEACH

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 320 | Page: 3 | Tags: none