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TWO BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPS BOMBED: NURSES THROWN INTO SEA

... shells in Dunkirk —have been landed at a south-east coast port and handled and tended as carefuly as anybody's casualties. They have been given cigarettes, water, food, and tea, just as our own boys. These wounded were tended in hospital near Dunkirk by our ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 405 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AMAZING ANsivER TO PRAYER.’*

... AMAZING ANsivER TO PRAYER.’* Referring to the recent evacuation from Dunkirk. Canon Keeling remarked that the age of miracles was not past. After the Day of Prayer, saw one with our own eves a week ago. when our armies were in a dire position. All the ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMANY

... bombers of the R.A.F. made a scries of attacks on enemy gun emplacements, roads, railways and troop concentrations in the Dunkirk area throughout yesterday. These operations were continued during the night our heavy bombers. At the same time other formations ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 336 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Midland Seamen

... Arthur Gooden, of Rugby, and Ordinary Seaman P. G. Compton, from Nuneaton, who were both wounded during the evacuation of Dunkirk. Gooden described how the destroyer in which he was serving went right into the jetty and took on a large number of men. they ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 131 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Bale-Out with Helmets

... the troops baled out with their steel helmets.” Tragic Irony A survivor of the battle northern France and the bombing of Dunkirk, Private Richard John Draper, aged J 5, of the R.A.M.C., arrived at Usk, Monmouthshire, on Saturday night on nis way home ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 123 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NUNEATON PARISH CHURCH

... try. pro.pective Labour candi. date for the Parliamentary Division of Tnmworth. W3ll among the woundr4l were etacuated from Dunkirk. lieut. Fogart has both arms broken. ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Midland Counties Tribune
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 123 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CAUGHT IN RING OF FIRE pHE savagery of the Nazis could not better illustrated than this prim story told by

... Nazis could not better illustrated than this prim story told by a N.C.0.. and confirmed by men who arrived with him from Dunkirk to-day. On Saturday, while thousands of us were waiting for ships to take us off.” he said. one party of 20 found a rowing ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SAILORS DON’T CARE

... Carried On! ONLY a few days after being blown into the sea by a bomb when the destroyer in which he was serving, was sunic off Dunkirk while evacuating men of the bronzed young Able- Seaman Lindsay, whose home is at 29a, Friar’s Road, Coventry, has called at ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ROOSEVELT STILL PRESSING DUCE

... in Paris only in French. —Birmingham Gazette- British United Press and Press Association correspondents. Mr. Eden Finds Dunkirk Heroes Cheerful A more probable line of argument is that Mussolini, though convinced that Hitler will win, can budget only ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

APPEAL FOB CLOTHIM®

... Midland waa appealing tat changes of dothea, ciganetlce. chocoJat*. aoap, and aliaving requisite* tor the men turned from Dunkirk. . Within half an hour of the appeal busy for aevaral houta sorting out and parcelling the gif la. Several hundred ahirta ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Admiralty’s Congratulations

... Admiralty congratulates all concerned in the successful evacuation of the B.E.F. and the soldiers of the Allied Armies from the Dunkirk area. Their Lordships appreciate the splendid endurance with which all snips and personnel faced the continuous attack of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 410 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Mercury June WINGS OVER THE NAVY-Pages 4 and i ir“ £ I: 9 AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARS PAGE SIX

... the evacuation being greatly speeded-up) while at Dunkirk the German drive was still being opposed by Allied units Squadrons of the RAF and Allied warships continued to screen the withdrawal from Dunkirk smashing and pounding advancing Germans German attacks ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1348 | Page: 1 | Tags: none