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EYE WITNESS OF NAZI SAVAGERY DAMAGE TO SHIPS MODELS Todmorden Man Who Sawi Todmorden Corporation Refugees ..

... SAVAGERY DAMAGE TO SHIPS MODELS Todmorden Man Who Sawi Todmorden Corporation Refugees Machine Gunned, Sue Carrier HOME FROM DUNKIRK Eye-witness of many acts of Nazi savagery in Flanders, including the ruthlesss Lompbing @nd machine gunning of ueeing retugees ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PLIGHT OF REFUGEES

... this is true.” A RAID ON DUNKIRK Lance Cpl. Fox had what he described as “gne or two narrow squeaks,” but during bombing raids on towns and villages and machine-gun attacks, he esc:rd un- Larmed. Ten days ago he arrived in Dunkirk. driving an Army lorry ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Local Man Wounded

... not so serious as was at first thought. ‘‘'rooper Heys went to rrance at Jhe beginning ot the war and tought through the Dunkirk battie. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SHRAPNEL BOMBS

... ourseives on the ground, and there werv onily seven casualuies.” Whiie engaged in couveying troops to the neignbourhood u Dunkirk, wriver Hanson was .fortunalg enougn to escape the attentions of Nuzi bomuers. “wun tne whole,” he said “we Lave peen a very ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

’ ) ~ Bravery In Battle Of Louvain KEPT LINES OF COMMUNICATION OPEN Gunner John Lancaster, RF.A. son of Mr

... 1938, and rtly after war was declared last September he crossed to France, wherel he remained until he was evacuated from Dunkirk on June Ist. Looking fit and well —he has been fortunate enough to come through without so much as a scratch—he arrived in ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 126 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

APPEALS FROM THE PULPIT

... on Dunkirk and how huge numbers of the Allied forces were evacuated. While Allied !orces| were fighting a rearguard action ali the way waves of from twenty to thirty German bombers kept coming over in an a(temxt to cut the forces off from Dunkirk. t Dunkirk ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 878 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

D.S.O. FOR TODMORDEN MAN Lieut.-Col J. J. Lishman, R.E

... work on the Escaut under heavy bombing attacks and on the Yser under artillery and mortar fire. He arrived in England from Dunkirk a fortnight last Friday. Lieut.-Col. Lishman, who was promoted to this rank in 1936. was selected for command of the 42nd ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FOUR VITAL FACTORS

... local picture theatre, The Gem, Cornhoime, an appeal was made by Coun. W. Egerton. After a reference to the evacuation from Dunkirk, and to modern methods of warfare and to their devastating results, Mr. McCorquodale said that mxme&e was urgently needed ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Children And Overseas Evacuation

... confirmed the story which l?poued in the daily press some time ¥o. e was a member of one of the last batches to evacuate Dunkirk. The nwr¥( concerned an N.C.O. and two men of the Royal Engineers, to whom two French workmen owed their lives. The workmen ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 613 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BROTHERS IN PLAY-OFF

... Burnley and District League, 16 players from each league. This match is in aid of the Mayor of Burnley's fund for the boys of Dunkirk and Norway, etc. Portsmouth v. Clifford House Home team names first: J. Houghton 21, W. Wilkinson 5; F. Whittaker 18, H. Bass ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 691 | Page: 3 | Tags: none