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THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRK Four-Fifths Of B.E.F: Saved TRIBUTE PY MINISTER FOR WAR IN broadcast talk Sunday night, ..

... THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRK Four-Fifths Of B.E.F: Saved TRIBUTE PY MINISTER FOR WAR IN broadcast talk Sunday night, Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, announced that more than four-fifths of the British Expeditionary Force which the Germans claimed ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SOUVENIR

... Inn. who, with a large number of other Ola Laurentians, has been serving with Royal Artillery battery. All,” arriving in Dunkirk, swam fully-clothed to destroyer after several unsuccessful attempts to get aboard a boat, and now his mother has as a souvenir ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AFFEAL FOR CLOTHINO

... counties was appealing for changes of clothes, cigarettes, chocolate, soap, and laving requisites for the men just returned from Dunkirk. Within half an hour of the appeal being made people were trooping into Rugby Police Station with dothes, tobacco, soap, and ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LABOUR UNITS IN BATTLE

... While these events were taking place near onr shores our Expeditionary Force was fighting for its life in its retreat on Dunkirk. Mechanized forces already encircled its western flank, and the collapse of the Belgian Army left open wide gap between the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 3 | Tags: none