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Dunkirk Shambles

... Dunkirk Shambles SELBY SOLDIERS ON NAZI RUTHLESSNESS Two Selby soldiers have described their experiences in the battle for the ports, one being engaged in the evacuation of Boulogne and the other in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Lance-Corporal George William ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AFTER DUNKIRK

... AFTER DUNKIRK Lance-Bdr. Bob Swatman, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Swat man. of 22, Eoseberry-road, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, and who was in the B.E.F. evacuation from Dunkirk, has been having a few daye leave on Tees-side. Before the outbreak of the ...

KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... KILLED AT DUNKIRK SON OF WELL-KNOWN COTTINGHAM MAN The parents of Troop-Sergeant- Major Thomas Wyatt Arbon, of Northgate. Cottingham, have received official notification of his death while on active service Mr C. H. Arbon, his father, was clerk to the ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK A South Elmsall lad who was evacuated from Dunkirk is William 'Howes (26), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howes. of 8. Chapel Lane. William is a member of a family with a remarkable record in the last war, in which his father, three brothers ...

FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK A South Elmsall lad who was evacuated from Dunkirk is William Howes (26), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howes, of 8. Chapel Lane. William is a member of a family with a remarkable record in the last war, in which his father, three brothers ...

ime at Dunkirk

... ime at Dunkirk time there was the roar Nazi 'planes overhead. Their objective the crowded beach, and the destroyers, salvo after salvo of bombs were dropped. the deafening din were air raid sirens sounding continuously on the shore. One *pi*ne made persistent ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK

... to have had enough. Their approach to Dunkirk was slow and cautious, and the handful there are in the ratio one to many thousands. David and Goliath; Moore and Soult; where is the parallel? There is not one. Dunkirk stands aloneā€”an epic for all time. We ...

LAST OUT OF DUNKIRK

... LAST OUT OF DUNKIRK Brigadiers Desperate Swim for Life ALREADY many stories have been recounted on the daring and resource of the men of the B.E.F. in their evacuation of Dunkirk. All tell of courage and fortitude in face of withering fire, bombing of ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TOOK COMMAND AT DUNKIRK

... TOOK COMMAND AT DUNKIRK Major-General H. R. Alexander Relieved Lord Gort The less senior officer to whom Lord Gort handed over command of remaining troops at Dunkirk when he returned to England last Saturday wa Major-General H. R. Alexander. General ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Men from Dunkirk

... Men from Dunkirk A. Sloan (Lab., Ayr and Bute) is to ask the Secretary for War next Tuesday whether he is aware that men of the British Expeditionary Force who arrived in England from Dunkirk were not supplied with railway vouchers to visit their homes ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BACK FROM DUNKIRK

... BACK FROM DUNKIRK M.P. Allege* Thousands Unable to Visit Homes Mr. A. Sloan (Lab., Ayr and Bute) to ask the Secretary for War next Tuesday whether he is aware M that men of the British Expeditionary Force who arrived in England from Dunkirk were not ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none