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Troops lived for 14 days on biscuits H OME on 48 hours’ leave after having been evacuated from Dunkirk. Gnr,

... chewing them. In the Dunkirk area, while the B.E.F. were making their great stand against the Germans, the captain told Whitehouso to let them have it,” and he worked like a Trojan on that gun ” until told to blow it up. At Dunkirk 50 to 60 German aeroplanes ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 257 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

>AZIS BIE.F. W(as Dunkirk Over Again CRICKET CLUB has \upnised its players into haymaking squads to * armers - A

... >AZIS BIE.F. W(as Dunkirk Over Again CRICKET CLUB has \upnised its players into haymaking squads to * armers - A number v county players are the hayfork instead vbatf s °n. of Frodshaw, yesterday £B,OOO freehold dairy farm. The Rowney. near *4 .. ayton ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 257 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Page Six. EVENING DESPATCH. Saturday, 15 June, 1940 One of last to leave Dunkirk —Capt. Lewis Roy Lloyd, ..

... Page Six. EVENING DESPATCH. Saturday, 15 June, 1940 One of last to leave Dunkirk —Capt. Lewis Roy Lloyd, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Lloyd, of Handsworth, leaving St. Agnes Church, Moseley, to-day, with his bride. Miss Peggy Christine Ouston, younger ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 55 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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

Though plainly marked with the Red Cross, this hospital ship had to run the gauntlet of Nazi machinegunning ..

... Though plainly marked with the Red Cross, this hospital ship had to run the gauntlet of Nazi machinegunning planes as she left Dunkirk, which is seen blazing in the background. INDIAN ON TRIAL HUNGER STRIKE FOR 42 DAYS CAXTON HALL SHOOTING WAS “AN ACCIDENT” ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 FARMERS’ RED CROSS SALE MAY RAISE £2,500 “ Dunkirk Beaches” Sold for £€l,ooo B.E.F. ..

... FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 FARMERS’ RED CROSS SALE MAY RAISE £2,500 “ Dunkirk Beaches” Sold for £€l,ooo B.E.F. SURVIVOR LANDS A BIG CATCH It was hoped to raise £l,OOO by the Red Cross sale organised by the Stratford-on-Avon branch of the National Farmers’ ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SOLDIER DID NOT FORGET MOTHER: JUST FLANDERS RECEIVED GIFT \ BIRTHDAY present sent off by her soldier son in ..

... MOTHER: JUST FLANDERS RECEIVED GIFT \ BIRTHDAY present sent off by her soldier son in Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. A. Qreig, of Bonnygate, Coupar Angus. Fifeshire. The parcel, battered and torn, was found by ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 456 | Page: 5 | Tags: none