... PRAYERS FOR DELIVERANCE Two Caldecote soldiers, evacuated with other members of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. attended Caldecole Parish Church on Sunday, when special prayers were offered for their deliverance. Tney were Stanley Price of 26 Council Collages ...

... bridge , he said. soon as they set foot on it up it went.” For nearly four days he and his unit waited on the beaches of Dunkirk to be taken off. and every day they were subjected to heavy bombing. The bombing was very haphazard he said. and the casualties ...

... George Herbert Lynch of Shortstown. who was then on a transport boat which is believed to have been bombed when leaving Dunkirk. He is the second son of Mrs. Lynch. 3 King Street. Kempston. and of the late Corporal A. Lynch. He has a wife and one son ...

... Forty-Eight Hour Leave in Biggleswade A young Biggleswade man. home forty-eight hours’ leave from the one of those evacuated from Dunkirk, u married on Wednesday afternoon Biggleswade Parish Church. He Mr. Courtney Allen Leslie Frank! elder son Mr. and Mrs. H ...

... service* Rev. J. Cornish (Pastor* is spend holiday in Perth. Scotland Special services of thanksgiving t for the evacuation from Dunkirk been held at the Parish Church once was made to the death of Gunn G. Sells. The Rev. E. C. Whitworth (V preached Short in ...

... Bedford, was married on Saturday while on forty-eight hours’ leave. He was with the BE F. in Flanders and was evacuated from Dunkirk. His bride was Miss Winifred Elsie Nottingham, younger daughter of the late Mr. Nottingham and of Mrs. Nottingham. 17 Council ...

... Services. Donald Harold Brown, onlv son of Mrs. M. Brown of New Street. Shefford. was among those killed in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was a resident of Westonsuper-Mare. REPORTED MISSING Sergt. Geoffrey Bernard Fleming of the Royal Air Force, youngest ...

... Mr. and Mrs. H A Dalton of Bridge Farm. Chawston. The Rev. A. J. Pyj officiated. The bridegroom has recently returned from Dunkirk. Miss Agnes Elizabeth Muncey. eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Muncey of Bell Farm. Colesden. was married Roxton Church ...

... Major lan Purcell. R.A., have served in France and Belgium since the outbreak of war. and were among those evacuated from Dunkirk. Those present at the wedding were Capt. and Mrs. Webster. Mrs. Purcell, and Miss Otley and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Otley (cousins) ...

... I unto you Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid.” Peace? We’ve been through hell ”. the men back from Dunkirk tell us. And the radio description of the flames over the oil-dumps bring hell very near us in our homes. True; but it is ...

... and is detained in hospital. Mr. E. Waylett of Clifton Road was on the minesweeper Skipjack when it was bombed and sank off Dunkirk. He is now home on leave. Sergt. Aubrey Horn of Top End. Podinglon. was wounded. A bomb fell quite close to him and he received ...

... Lieut-General Lindsell was Quarter- Master-Gencral with the B E.F. Among the awards made in connexion with the evacuation of Dunkirk is that of the 0.8. E. (Military Division) to Major (Temp.) A. E. M. Walter. R.E. As a boy Major Walter lived in St. George’s ...