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BLIZZARD OF BOMBS MEN LEFT DUNKIRK

... BLIZZARD OF BOMBS MEN LEFT DUNKIRK THE WORKMAN’S TRIBUTE TRAIN of French and Bel * gian soldiers, looking hot and tired, stopped in a Surrey station. They made a rush for the small buffet, but having only foreign money could not be served. Waiting passengers ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 116 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THEY HAVE EARNED IT

... In the Argonne some fairly violent artillery activity by the Germans was followed by patrols, but these too were repulsed. Dunkirk “Like a Fortress” The spokesman said that there was no deterioration of the situation of the French and British armies in ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 603 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Line” Near The Coast

... General Prioux. which was'hemmed in near Lille, continues to make progress northwards towards the Dunkirk region. German artillery is now shelling Dunkirk end the vicinity, so the dangers are worse than ever. Already a considerable part of it has hacked ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1342 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Jt'rench Troo JNo. 15,259. Black-Out Time: 9.49 p.m. s Reach the Stron FRIDAY, 31 MAY, 1940. ly-held Dunkirk Radio: Pag Admiral Abrial, who is in command of the French Naval Forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Scribbled Telegrams –

... the men were still wearing steel helmets camouflaged with netting and sacking. or mud and sand-stained. We got away from Dunkirk. said one party, through a terrific hail of bombs and shells. All the time bombs were falling around us and bombers sweeping ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 262 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TIRED, HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN

... HUNGRY, BUT MORALE UNBROKEN MORE stories of the ordeals of the B.E.F. men, both before and during their evacuation from Dunkirk, and of the great work of the R.A.F. and Navy, wdiich made their escape possible, were told as more men, tired and hungry ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1038 | Page: 4 | Tags: none