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Campbeltown Coincidence At Dunkirk Remarkable Story Of The Evacuation

... Campbeltown Coincidence At Dunkirk Remarkable Story Of The Evacuation A Campbeltown seaman who took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk was involved in a remarkable coincidence in the thick of the fighting. He was a member of the crew of the Gracie Fields ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Reapgrs oF THIS LETTER WILL ®E interested to learn that Company Sergeant Major Archie Mac Neill, who was its ..

... the engagements in Belgium and round Dunkirk. Towards the end of May his Battalion was very heavily engaged and Mr Mae Neill was one of the wounded. Fortumately he was among those so gallantly evacuated from Dunkirk and is, as already stated, in hospital ...

The Camerons Make A Stand Hand to Hand Fighting

... bayonets, hurled themselves on advancing hordes of Germans and fought them to a standstill while other battalions marched into Dunkirk has been revealed. A company quartermaster, now lying in | a London hospital told how the Camerons lined the doorways and ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Do You Know?

... finest statue in the Empire’’, %0 wrote Alexander Smith of “A Summer in Skye”'. We are calling the retiral of the B.E.F. to Dunkirk a second Corunna, and Sir John Moore, of undying glory, was the hero of that retreat. Not & drum was heard—not a funeral note ...

CLYDE STEAMER SUNK BY BOMBERS

... CLYDE STEAMER SUNK BY BOMBERS Glasgow soldiers rescued from Dunkirk beaches played their part in (bfiw LNER. Olyde paddiestcamer ‘‘Wa » which was bombed and sunk in the English Channel, on May 29. . With English and Welsh comrades of the B.EF. they fired ...

Over 3000 German 'Planes Lost

... reached well over 3000. Such losses cannot he kept up indefinitely. Aerial activity during the week-end was most intense in the Dunkirk area where German bombers in their attempts to strafe troops on the heaches were met by the falt fury of the R.A.F. fighter ...

A Gordon Highlander

... Kerr's 21st birthday, A brother, Captain R. Kerr, R.A., has returned safely to this country following the evacuation from Dunkirk. ...

D.C.M. for Perth Man

... known in junior football circles in Perth, and his younger brother, a private in the Black Watch, who was wounded in the Dunkirk evacuation, was a well known local boxer. ...

qa-.,0-un- Missing

... in the firm of D. & W. Grant, solicitors, Rothesay. A younger brother, Lieut, W. Hutchison Grant, was killed in action at Dunkirk during the evacuation. It is officially announced that Major Dugald Peacock, who was in command of the Campbeltown Anti-Tank ...