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... troops, the skill of their leaders and the dogged I bravery and endurance of the seamen , who brought the armies from the Dunkirk beaches across the Straits were alike admirable. But the main feature of this astonishing operation was the triumph of our ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 340 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Waiting for the Whistle

... Waiting for the Whistle If Goebbels had wished to hearten the British troops fighting their way back to Dunkirk, he could not have chosen abetter way of doing so than by dropping leaflets on them, inviting them to surrender as the match is finished ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DIARY OF THE WAR Outstanding Events of the Week

... WAR Outstanding Events of the Week May 31: Allies hold Corunna line while evacuation proceeds. June 1: Embarkation from Dunkirk beaches proceeds on large scale. June 2: Mr. Anthony Eden, A. ar Minister, declares that more than four-fifths of B.E.F. had ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

No Braver Epic in all our Annals, says War Minister

... battle dress were present. They , had arrived back from Dunkirk. Among them was Captain Richard Pilkington, the Member for Widnes Division, who got back on Monday morning, after 24 hours at Dunkirk waiting for a boat. Captain Pilkington was looking surprisingly ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

received last Saturday from a comrade who said he saw Guardsman Clare an hour before he embarked from Boulogne. At

... Castner Kellner Company and who as a heavy lorry driver and whose home was in Marsh Lane, Frodsham, was brought home from Dunkirk severely wounded and passed away at Chatham Hospital. The funeral took place yesterday . (Thursday) at Frodsham. Runcorn Mon ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 341 | Page: 1 | Tags: none