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... wounded by their own shells while they were prisoners at Dunkirk, They had been tended by the R.A.M.C., who gave them the same careful treatment as the British wounded. Men and women refugees from Dunkirk, among them a woman of more than 80, were also landed ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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MISCELLANEOUS SALES

... treadle or power drive: nrly.ucw: cost £5O, acc.£ls.-E167 STOP PRESS BLAcWriars 2345 THREE D.S.O.s FOR DUNKIRK OFFICERS King conferred D.S.O. on three Dunkirk evacuation heroes: Lieutenantcolonel Desmond Harrison (Royal Engineers). Lieutenant-colonel T. F. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

French Between

... French Between Two Fires MORE French troops from Dunkirk were landed in England to-day. Nearly all of them carried their complete kit, and several possessed prized souvenirs of the historic battle. One man brought with him an ignition key. It was all ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 373 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Italian Bases Bombed

... overboard when chased by a French warship. (Press Association War Special and British United Press messages.) Carried Violin in Dunkirk Retreat From Our Ashton Correspondent When Driver Edwin Taylor, R.A.S.C., of Rowsley-strcet, Beswick, Manchester, went to ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 201 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DESTROYER SURVIVOR TELLS OF NIGHT SINKING

... Platting, Manchester, was asleep on the searchlight platform of a destroyer. For hours the vessel had been plying between Dunkirk and a S.E. coast port bringing back hundreds of young B.E-F. soldiers. went to bed. About 4 a.m. there was a banging on the ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

What is to be Done for Britain's CARRYING = Mr. Manchester WHEN disposing of waste paper take care that no

... seems that this is happening again. bombers and enabled the Allied warriors to elude the Nazi forces as they closed around Dunkirk, “Ironsides” R IDING motor-cycles instead of horses, and armed with modern guns instead of muskets, Ironside troops, which ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FRENCH

... FRENCH French and British land, sea, and air forces continue with complete solidarity at Dunkirk their bitter fight to resist the German drive and to assure evacuation. The enemy showed the importance they attached to the passage of the Somme by coun ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 198 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

100,000 Risk of

... 100,000 Risk of the British forces y have been fighting their way home from Dunkirk, thousands of crates of strawberries from the peaceful districts of France have been coming to England. Pictured here are a few of the 2,000 crates —holding 28,0001b5 ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 49 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMING OF AGE

... their son, JOHN ALAN, now in England with the B.E.F. Also our sincere Thanhs to all those who helped the evacuation from Dunkirk. Avonlea, Wythenshawe Bead. Baguley, ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Demand for Immediate Action Grows in America

... fire of machineguns and after house-to-house fighting that the last defenders of Dunkirk were evacuated. Admiral Abrial, the French Commander of the troops that defended Dunkirk while the embarkation took place, was the last to leave, said French wireless ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 303 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CYCLING TOUR

... story of the commander of a British destroyer was told by troops arriving at a South East coast port. The commander reached Dunkirk, went into the town, found a bicycle, and rode as far round the town as he could, although it was under fire. He returned ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 3 | Tags: none