... Back From Dunkirk Among the men Dunkirk who liave spent a brief leave in Colne was 2nd Lieut. Robert Shutt, son of Mr. W. Shutt, of Keighley Road. Lieut. Shutt was formerly in the Colne Borough Surveyor’s office, and he served his articles under Mr. T ...

... BACK FROM DUNKIRK Barnoldswick Man’s Adventures ...

... COLNE SOLDIERS IN DUNKIRK EPIC VERY HOT «Mik part in tin* lighting preceding Ik* uitlulrawal from Dunkirk, and who ■\cr«* amongst ihoso brought hark to this imtry from tliat |M»rt in all km ...

... KILLED IN ACTION NEAR DUNKIRK TRAINING BOYS FOR FARM WORK 4 Lancashire Kdncatioii at Preston last Monday decided coofwrate with the Ministry of Agriculture in the training of boys from elementary schools farm workers. Alderman W. E. Hale, chairman the ...

... three hectic days and nights his unit retreated 118 miles to Dunkirk. In an interview, Waterworth discussed the retreat and said that the retreating armies were bombed almost continuously. At Dunkirk the men waded out into the water waiting for boats pick ...

... CD« «. OHPBCHB-MIT, OOLKM FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940. The Miracle THE evacuation of our Army and part of th© French Army from Dunkirk has been called miracle. That is not exaggerated term to use. Many of knew quite well what Mr. Churchill meant last week when ...

... intervi** that wen* troubled by German in buck to Dunkirk, bombs were falling all around and sour* luid come within a close distance of him, but was able to get to the jMirt in safety. not to Dunkirk at six o’cloek on the Monday morning, but was not until ...

... began to make their way to Dunkirk. “We had pass through a bott)en«*ek created by the Germans at Poperinglie,” said Private Sliaekleton. “There were thousands of troops all regiments going through, all making towards Dunkirk, and it was there that the ...

... Lima, South America, escaped ill fleet from the recent serious earthquake. From Dunkirk. Private Harry Webster enjoying a hriei leave following hi* deliverance tom the Dunkirk inferno. Harry, who is only 21 years of ago, was Higham s first recruit under ...

... AWAY WITHOUT A SCRATCH TRAWOEN SOLOSE R'S EXPERIENCE A graphic account of the lighting which preceded the withdrawal from Dunkirk, and of the scenes there and at other places not far away, was given to a “Tunes” reporter by loanee-Corporal Stanley Cook ...

... men have returned from Franco and a few’ of the later retreating soldiers from Dunkirk are with the contingent. It was only the other night that I was talking with a Dunkirk man. and he was ama/ed at the reception that was given to him and his friends ...

... seem to have been any great number of local men involved in the fighting, there are quite a number who have got away from Dunkirk, and one is sorry to hear of one or two prisoners of war and others who are posted missing. Thus does the war begin to take ...