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MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK 20 BROAD STREET ABERDEEN 'Phones: 4770 (6 Lines) And the Lesson for Britain RELIEF at the great deliverance at Dunkirk has obscured the fact that the Belgian campaign has been a very great reverse for the Allied cause. The Prime Minister ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 569 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Leopold's Cousin Says Belgians Will Fight

... batteries taking part in the fighting on the Albert Canal and then in front of Bruges. After the surrender he succeeded in Dunkirk with some 20 other officers. The Belgian troops were amazed when the order came to lay down arms, he said. The duty and desire of ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOR RECONNAISSANCE WORK

... batteries, talcing part fighting on the Albert Canal and in front of Bruges. After the so,, he succeeded in reaching Dunkirk wasome 20 other officers. The troops were amazed when the o-°- came to lay down arms, he sain. The duty and desire of all his ■ ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 313 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

democracy fell away there. Beaten but unconquered, shining splendour she faced the enemy . . . It was the ..

... OF BOMBERS• ARRAS TO DUNKIRK. ULSTERMAN'S STORY OF RETREAT. PACKED ROADS AND BOMBS. REFUGEES' TERRIBLE FATE. One of the first Ulstermen to reach Belfast after taking part in the epic struggle still in progress around Dunkirk' is 20-year-old Gunner Desmond ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 352 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOW LAST TROOPS LEFT DUNKIRK

... HOW LAST TROOPS LEFT DUNKIRK Twenty-Four Hours In Small Boats rowing-boats, yachts, a motorboat, and a collection of other craft, the last troops to leave Dunkirk arrived at ports along- the Southeast coast yesterday. This strange fleet used many devices ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN THE CASUALTIES

... of Mr. and Mrs. H. Oswald, of 46 Wandsworth Road. Norris Green, has died in southern hospital from wounds received at Dunkirk. He was 20 years of age. and had been in the Army twelve months to the day He was an old scholar of Hall Lane School. Private Adrian ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 316 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CYCLES DUNKIRK RESCUE

... CYCLES DUNKIRK RESCUE French Soldiers’ Nine Days in a Wreck A British motor boat rescued nine French soldiers some time after the withdrawal of Allied troops at Dunkirk For nine days the soldiers had existed on board a wreck sunk in shallow wtaer within ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IN WRECK OFF DUNKIRK

... IN WRECK OFF DUNKIRK french soldiers saved AFTER NINE DAYS Details of the rescue of nine French soldiers by a British motor-boat off Dunkirk have become known. They had existed, since the evacuation on a wreck sunk in shallow water within a few miles ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 76 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CARLTON HERO'S DEATH FACED DANGER TO SAVE GUN AT DUNKIRK FULL MILITARY HONOURS

... SAVE GUN AT DUNKIRK FULL MILITARY HONOURS THE funeral—the first military funeral of this war at Carlton —took place on Monday afternoon of a 20-years-old Sherwood Forester who died from wounds received when fighting in the retreat from Dunkirk. He was Edward ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TWENTY VESSELS LOST

... First Lord has announced the loss of naval vessels. In addition. 20 merchant craft met glorious and self-sacrificing end. Only the tiny craft could go direct from our coasts to Dunkirk. To avoid minefields our ships had-to make a round trip of up to 160 ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OKDLAL ON WRECK

... metor-boat some time after the withdrawal of Allied troops from Dunkirk have become known. Fee nine days these survivors had existed on board a wreck sunk in shallow water within a few miles of Dunkirk. They were rescued on June 12 For nine days they had been ...