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WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK

... WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK Mrs. Jones told a Midland Daily Telegraph representative that her husband, who is 33, served 12 years in the Navy and was recalled from the Reserve when the war began. One of his brothers is a bandsman and has been serving in India ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK

... MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK Thanksgiving at Holy Trinity Evensong at Holy Trinity yesterday was kept as a thanksgiving service for the miracle of Dunkirk. The Vicar (the Rev. G. W. Clitheroe), after referring to the national day of prayer observed on May 26, when ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 243 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FROM DUNKIRK WRECK

... FROM DUNKIRK WRECK Details of the rescue of nine French soldiers by a British fast motor boat, some time aftec the withdrawal of Allied troops from Dunkirk, have become known. Fo nine days these survivors had existed on board a wreck sunk in shallow water ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION GOES 0

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION GOES War-time Court Contrasts Germans Claim Capture of Port DESPITE continual attacks from the air and by long range artillery, troops are still embarking from Dunkirk in large numbers, and in perfect order. German infantry attacks ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 878 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ALLIES’ LOSS OF SHIPS AT DUNKIRK

... SHIPS AT DUNKIRK THE Admiralty announce that the total British mercantile tonnage lost by enemy action in the week ending midnight, Sunday, June 2, was 78,715 tons, of which 24,000 tons was lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BISHOP OF COVENTRY ON PRAYER Reference to the National Day of Prayer, the deliverance of the B.E.F. from ..

... BISHOP OF COVENTRY ON PRAYER Reference to the National Day of Prayer, the deliverance of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, and the subsequent adverse developments in the war situation, is the subject of comment by the Bishop of Coventry in his Diocesan Gazette ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 216 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MILITARY FEAT WITHOUT PRECEDENT

... Receives Dunkirk Hero Admiral Abrial, hero of Dunkirk, was received in audience by the King, at Buckingham Palace, to-day. Admiral Abrial is the French admiral who was in charge of the embarkation of the B.E.F. and the French troops at Dunkirk, and he ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 289 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Enemy Tests of Somme Defences

... have reached the fortified area at Dunkirk and are taking part in its defence. German attacks, presumably intended to “sound” French defences V'e line of the Somme, have been renr' FRENCH REARGUARD REACHING DUNKIRK The withdrawal of Allied units to the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 206 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I ANDERS EVACUATION GOES ON

... able to reach the Dunkirk area, and it is admitted thal« the position of these men is becoming more and more difficult. DUNKIRK SITUATION IMPROVED The Germans, who have not sufficient means to attack the fortified positions round Dunkirk from the land, have ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1210 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ONE PENNY GERMAN OFFENSIVE

... incomplete. it is known, however, that groups of men are now back in this country, having taken part in the great evacuation from Dunkirk. There is evidence that some have managed to get messages to their relatives telling that they have reached England safely ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 250 | Page: 1 | Tags: none