... DOCTOR WHO STAYED AT DUNKIRK SOLDIER HAD MESSAGE FOR CHELTENHAM WIFE A soldier is in great distress because he has been unable to pass on a message to the wife of a Cheltenham doctor who is apparently a prisoner of war. Miss Margery Woollcombe, of The ...

... troops from Dunkirk proceeded steadily, in spite of continuous attacks from the j air by German bombers. H.M.S. Ourlew, anti-aircraft ship, was reported sunk in a bombing attack off the coast of Norway; SATURDAY, JUNE 1 German bombers over Dunkirk beaches ...

... and the final evacuation by the Navy of the men of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. He told a Chronicle reporter how the British forces are being taken out of blazing and bomb-blasted Dunkirk not in battalions, nor yet in companies, but man ' by man, under the ...

... Ministry, and at the outbreak of war he volunteered for service. He left for France in January and recently returned from Dunkirk. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham. The bride, who the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stewart, of Ashfield ...

... Mr. and Mrs. Walter Watts,of 22, New-street, Cheltenham, is on 48-hours' leave from the 8.E.F., and recently returned from Dunkirk. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Boseley, of Harrow Hill, Drybrook. The Rev. H. Clarkson conducted the service ...

... supported in the air, were defending the port of Dunkirk. The R.A.F. continued to give all support in its power to the Allied Armies by attacking railways, roads, bridges, and troops. In a fight near Dunkirk 22 enemy bombers were accounted for without loss ...

... BROTHERS MISSING Major Ronald Cartland, M.P. for the King's Norton Division, who was engaged with his regiment in the retreat to Dunkirk, is reported missing; and his younger brother, Captain Anthony Cartland, is also reported missing, but believed to be a prisoner ...

... O.St.J., officially reported as missing since the last battle in Flanders, which covered the embarkation of the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, is now reported to be safe, but a prisoner of war in Germany. Twenty-nine years of age, and a Regular officer, he was adjutant ...

... while taking part in the last stand made by a battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in Flanders during the retreat to Dunkirk. His parents have received an official notification that his death has been reported. The son of a former commanding officer ...

... Peacock, of St. Heliers, Hales-road, Cheltenham. After describing the evacuation of the wounded to the hospital ships at Dunkirk, a week before the final evacuation of the whole British forces, Driver Peacock writes: The last time we arrived at the ...

... impress on all members of the Council the extreme necessity there is for salvaging scrap, he said. A lot of metal was lost at Dunkirk, and to replace that we must make strenuous efforts as a nation. I do feel that it is up to us do our utmost in our parishes ...

... While fighting in Flanders, he was wounded in both legs, and among those who helped to put him on a lorry for conveyance to Dunkirk was his brother, Second Lieut. G. E. D. Whitaker, an officer of the same regiment, who is now safe in this country. Before ...