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Dunkirk Rescuer

... Dunkirk Rescuer Married Our Bury Correspondent °n leave after his ship and he was wounded Chief Engine-room >, .Thomas Edwards, of , married in Glasgow Mary Edgar, whom working in the ShipyardswS 10 s now n s 40’s, was Mosquito, a gunboat which by bombers ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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DUNKIRK PILOTS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK PILOTS DECORATED SQUADRON-LEADER PHILIP A. HUNTER, who led a formation which shot down 38 enemy planes in two patrols, was awarded the D.S.O. to-day. The award of 10 D F.C.s and 11 D.F.M.s —manv for heroism during the Dunkirk evacuation was also ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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NAZIS SAY. “WE ARE IN DUNKIRK ”

... NAZIS SAY. “WE ARE IN DUNKIRK OFFICIAL communiques were issued to-day as follows : FRENCH TVURING the night embarkation went on actively in the Dunkirk region thanks to the resistance of our troops, and in spite of ceaseless difficulties cause by enemy ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 371 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Starving Dogs of Dunkirk OF all the tragic episodes in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk perhaps none has

... Starving Dogs of Dunkirk OF all the tragic episodes in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk perhaps none has been more poignant than the pathetic attempts of dogs and horses to board vessels as the troops embarked. Hundreds of dogs, cats, horses ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

R.A.F. Dawn Patrol Over Dunkirk Bags 19 Nazis

... R.A.F. Dawn Patrol Over Dunkirk Bags 19 Nazis Miners Work Before Play T EICESTERSHIRE miners are working full shifts to-day to assist Britain’s effort to produce more coal. This means that the men do not come out of the pits till half-past two. . Cricket ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Would Not Take Boat

... Would Not Take Boat to Dunkirk THE coxswain and motor mechanic of the Hythe lifeboat, who did not obey a request by the naval authorities Dover to assist in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, have been dismissed from the lifeboat service. A report ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 136 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

20 BROKE THROUGH

... Popefinghe. Finding it practically destroyed air bombing he collected more wounded from the ruins and took his convoy to Dunkirk. After embarking his casualties and attending to further cases on the beach he returned with more medical supplies. He found ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BLANKET SIGNAL

... lifeboat, which had previously saved 3,000 troops from the beaches at Dunkirk, was herself without food or water having had no time to replenish supplies since evacuating the troops from Dunkirk, ARMY HAS ‘BROTHERS’ UNIT Twenty-two sets of brothers are members ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

100,000 ARE REPORTED EVACUATED

... remains in Flanders. The path of retreat to Dunkirk is still open, though the Germans have redoubled their efforts to cut off the Allied rearguard. Rising flood waters have foiled the enemy attack on Dunkirk. ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

us spraying: us with bullets—but not

... wounded by their own shells while they were prisoners at Dunkirk, They had been tended by the R.A.M.C., who gave them the same careful treatment as the British wounded. Men and women refugees from Dunkirk, among them a woman of more than 80, were also landed ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 433 | Page: 8 | Tags: none