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DUNKIRK SUNDAY

... DUNKIRK SUNDAY Services on Merseyside Sunday was set apart in the Archdiocese of Liverpool as the day on which thanksgiving should be made for the miracle of Dunkirk, and also the heroic dead should be remembered with prayers and Masses. At St. Patrick's ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EXPLOIT

... DUNKIRK EXPLOIT --\ ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

(Continuod from proviom column)

... troops, the skill of their leaders and the dogged I bravery and endurance of the seamen , who brought the armies from the Dunkirk beaches across the Straits were alike admirable. But the main feature of this astonishing operation was the triumph of our ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 340 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BOYS ON SERVICE

... Story George E. Cregreen, who was A thrilling story of the evacuation employed by the Weekly News, and of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk is told by who volunteered for the newly-formed Artificer Gordon Oliver of Run corn who Home Defence Battal ion recently, ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AMUSEMENTS

... returned to the country to tell how Private Phillips practically died at his side. He was killed when the B.E.F. evacuated from Dunkirk. Private Phillips, who is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, has a brother. Sapper John Phillips, aged 20 year:. who ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 96 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Waiting for the Whistle

... Waiting for the Whistle If Goebbels had wished to hearten the British troops fighting their way back to Dunkirk, he could not have chosen abetter way of doing so than by dropping leaflets on them, inviting them to surrender as the match is finished ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

washer.— News, OBSERVATIONS BY THE MAN ON THE BRIDGE WIDNES & DISTRICT

... BRIDGE WIDNES & DISTRICT DUNKIRK MEN RETURN.—Quite a number of houses on Merseyside thi, week are holding quiet rejoicing in the fact that some fathers and sons have been literally snatched from the jaws of death at Dunkirk. At Blackburne Avenue, Halebank ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BOYS ON SERVICE Welcome Home Appreciated

... BOYS ON SERVICE Welcome Home Appreciated As a Widnes member of the B.E.F. recently returned from Dunkirk, may I be allowed, through the Weekly News, to thank all friends in Millfield Road district for the very great reception which they gave me when ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 135 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DIARY OF THE WAR Outstanding Events of the Week

... WAR Outstanding Events of the Week May 31: Allies hold Corunna line while evacuation proceeds. June 1: Embarkation from Dunkirk beaches proceeds on large scale. June 2: Mr. Anthony Eden, A. ar Minister, declares that more than four-fifths of B.E.F. had ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

No Braver Epic in all our Annals, says War Minister

... battle dress were present. They , had arrived back from Dunkirk. Among them was Captain Richard Pilkington, the Member for Widnes Division, who got back on Monday morning, after 24 hours at Dunkirk waiting for a boat. Captain Pilkington was looking surprisingly ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

(ORRESPONDENCE A Thanksgiving Day?

... day of prayer. Why not a call to a day of thanksgiving? Men of every rank do not hesitate to say that a miracle happened at Dunkirk and over 300,000 lives were saved. Our congregations were much larger on the day of prayer. How many have thought of giving ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Kilburn—Holt

... The bridegroom, who is in the R.A.S.C., was one of the early members of the B.E.F. and was among the troops evacuated from Dunkirk. He rejoined his regiment on the day following his marriage. The bride is a member of the staff at the Runcorn Town Hall. ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 5 | Tags: none