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THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRK Four-Fifths Of B.E.F: Saved TRIBUTE PY MINISTER FOR WAR IN broadcast talk Sunday night, ..

... THE BATTLE OF DUNKIRK Four-Fifths Of B.E.F: Saved TRIBUTE PY MINISTER FOR WAR IN broadcast talk Sunday night, Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War, announced that more than four-fifths of the British Expeditionary Force which the Germans claimed ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

O.L’s HOME AGAIN

... who were serving in the Royal Arti. lery, and of whom good news was i« ceived early last week after the evac ation from Dunkirk of the British E\ peditionary Force, have been visiti:.: their homes in Rugby during the la-; few days. Those who have been ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

APPEAL FOB CLOTHIM®

... Midland waa appealing tat changes of dothea, ciganetlce. chocoJat*. aoap, and aliaving requisite* tor the men turned from Dunkirk. . Within half an hour of the appeal busy for aevaral houta sorting out and parcelling the gif la. Several hundred ahirta ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A SOUVENIR

... Inn. who, with a large number of other Ola Laurentians, has been serving with Royal Artillery battery. All,” arriving in Dunkirk, swam fully-clothed to destroyer after several unsuccessful attempts to get aboard a boat, and now his mother has as a souvenir ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 508 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SOUVENIR

... Clifton Inn. who, with a largo uuenber other Old Laurentian*, has been serving with Royal Artillery battery. Alt,” arm ing in Dunkirk, swam fully-clothed to a destroyer after several unsuccessful attempts get aboard a boat, and now his mother has a souvenir ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AFFEAL FOR CLOTHINO

... counties was appealing for changes of clothes, cigarettes, chocolate, soap, and laving requisites for the men just returned from Dunkirk. Within half an hour of the appeal being made people were trooping into Rugby Police Station with dothes, tobacco, soap, and ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR BRIEFS

... Cbnrchaa in England Walea. In the morning and even. ■ Mr. Jaokina apoke lationa of acbolara, parent a, and the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, hen da. On Sunday afternoon a nuidbrr of eugering from Iramatiaed vara ion of the atory the eye comparatively leaurrection ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 371 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Toll Of The Road

... Guernsey, and of Mrs. Wright, Rowlctlge, Farnham. WILLOUGHBY Special Service. A oervicp of thuikagivine tor tlie evacuation of Dunkirk wu lield in tlw Church on Sunday evening. The SOtli I’aalm «'»• aung and also the Doom, to ■necial aettiug, together with ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LABOUR UNITS IN BATTLE

... While these events were taking place near onr shores our Expeditionary Force was fighting for its life in its retreat on Dunkirk. Mechanized forces already encircled its western flank, and the collapse of the Belgian Army left open wide gap between the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1118 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR JiRIEFSI ■ > *** t 1 L.D.Y., 4k* l*aad«r« A* the t*lo* of *»•*«»- 1 tion f?S?th* «»“ out

... great losses of Red Cross material. Home •tores liave also been heavily drawn itpon. For instance, the return troops from Dunkirk necessitated an immediate issue of 50.000 pyiania suits and 30,000 dressing gowns and tens of thousands of slippers. Lea 11 ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 558 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CIVIL DEFENCE

... France early in the war, aaw little of the actual fighting, but, like all the 8.E.P., had an unpleaaant time on the beaches at Dunkirk. Before the war earned on window-cleaning btuineas, and waa a Territorial. ; Printed end PuUUhed Adrertber Ud.. end Publishing ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Rugby Advertiser
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 8 | Tags: none