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THE EVACUATION FROM DUNKIRK

... THE EVACUATION FROM DUNKIRK. MAN TROOPS SAFE. Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for War. in a broadcast in the Home and Empire programmes. referred to the critical situation in Flanders. and said there was no braver epic in all our annals. It was the triumph ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Mid-Ulster Mail
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1264 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHIELDS M] IN DUNKIRK EPIC

... SHIELDS M] IN DUNKIRK EPIC Officer's Tribute to Crew A THRILLING story of the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk by a minesweeper on board which a number ut North Shields men and other Tynesiders were serving, was told to rhe Evening News today by the ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1218 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING AT DUNKIRK: NAZIS'

... FEROCIOUS FIGHTING AT DUNKIRK: NAZIS' 10 for Trial on National Service Act Charge IMPERSONATION AT MEDICAL BOARD '-ALLEGATION EFERENCE to a man with a very bad condition of the heart who on five occasions, it is alleged, took the place of other men before ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Evacuation Of Dunkir

... Evacuation Of Dunkirk Is Complete Heroic Rearguard Reach Safety Wednesday. The, last of the defenders of Dunkirk the heroic rearguard that held the Germans at bay while the main Allied armies of the north escaped the trap the Germans had set for them ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Evacuation of Dunkirk's Heroic Rearguard Goes On TROOPS' GREAT DISCIPLINE

... Evacuation of Dunkirk's Heroic Rearguard Goes On TROOPS' GREAT DISCIPLINE Hint of Nazi Offensive Verdun ON all the beaches in the Dunkirk area, under the protection of the Allied navies and air forces, the work of embarking the last heroic defenders, ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Shields B.E.F. Men Enjoying Leave THE stream of North Shields men arriving home on leave following the Dunkirk ..

... following the Dunkirk evacuation continues. Among them are:— Pte Herbert Kitchener Wall, aged 22, son of Mr and Mrs B. Wall. of 30 Mowbray Road. He joined the Army in January and went to France in Api•:. For ;wo '.:ours. he was on tho beach at Dunkirk before ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 347 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

An officer In the Merchant Navy, who acted as his best man, congratu fates Gunner Stanley Cadger, Percy Main, ..

... officer In the Merchant Navy, who acted as his best man, congratu fates Gunner Stanley Cadger, Percy Main, home on short Dunkirk Is ave, after his marriage at Coach Lane Methodist Church, yesterday, to Miss Hilda Amos. WOMEN BEAT OUR LAST INVADERS Enemy ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 815 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TOONE

... three days leave. after his thrilling adventure in Dunkirk. He joined the Royal Navy after the outbreak of war. and was on one of the destroyers at Dunkirk. Ile was also on the land forces at Dunkirk. assisting the soldiers to embark. 1115 ship was sunk ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Mid-Ulster Mail
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AIIitiENTIERES--SHAMBLES

... ground. It is believed that ships of the All.ed navies were shelling areas at the back of Dunkirk. Although machine gunned, bombed and shelled, working parties at Dunkirk yesterday went out and reverently burii'd the Allied dead. We have been fighting and ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Shelled and Bombed B.E.F. Man Home

... Shelled and Bombed B.E.F. Man Home North shields men who took part in the epic withdrawal from Dunkirk continue to aciive home on short leave. Among the latest to return are Pte. C. Johnston aged 35 married, of 61 Red Burn Vicw Ridges Estate, and Bdr ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 372 | Page: 6 | Tags: none