... THE DUNKIRK ORDEAL Adventures Of Nottingham Men NINE HOURS A DAY IN DITCHES More and more stories from sturdy sons of Nottingham describing their experiences in the B.E.F. evacuation are coming to hand. The latest is in the form of letter from George ...

... THE DUNKIRK RETREAT Medal For Members Of The 8.E.F.? A Dunkirk medal (or badge) is likely to be given to all members of the B.E.F. who took part in the immortal retreat from Dun kirk. Because this question is now being con sidered, the War Office have ...

... A DUNKIRK CASUALTY Young Nottm. Trooper Succumbs To Wounds Intimation has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. George, of 51 Kirkby-street, Nottingham, that their youngest son, Kenneth, has died of wounds received during the evacuation from ...

... direct to Dunkirk, were instrumental in saving many soldiers. The dismissed coxswain, H. Griggs, had been a member of the Hythe lifeboat crew for 38 years He was said at the time to have declared to an interviewer that he declined to go Dunkirk because ...

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION ACCELERATED Allied Air Forces Inflict Fresh Heavy Losses On The Enemy A GREAT DAY IN THE AIR Battle Lines More Active On The Aisne ENEMY'S APPALLING LOSSES AT RETHEL Authoritative military circles in Paris state that although yesterday ...

... FEROCIOUS GERMAN ATTACKS AT DUNKIRK Allied fortified Camp holds out * oop Evacuation Continues Uninterruptedly ARTILLERY AND i AIR BOMBARDMENT . While the Allies have continued uninterruptedly kii * ne withdrawal of their troops from Dunthe fighting there ...

... 000 IN DUNKIRK OPERATIONS The Admiralty announce that the total British mercantile tonnage lost by enemy action in the week ending midnight, Sunday, June 2nd, was 78,715, of which 24,000 tons were lost during Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures ...

... TOWED BY MINESWEEPER AFTER PARACHUTE DROP. A 25-year-old airman, an ex-Cardiff High School boy, who was on patrol during the Dunkirk evacuation, had a remarkable escape when, although wounded, he dropped 8,000 feet by parachute and was towed safety by a ...

... Smith shared to the full the rigours of the fighting retreat to Dunkirk, and the perils of embarkation under a hail of bullets and bombs. We were trapped the Germans in a bottle neck near Dunkirk, he told the Post. had to fight day and night for 17 days ...

... Cycle To Get Home And Crashed A magisterial plea to an officer for merciful consideration for two B.E.F. soldiers home from Dunkirk was made at Sheffield to-day. Jack Frost, 28, of Fifth-avenue, North Hull Estate, Hull, and Harry Olsen, 35, of Providence-road ...

... stream gathered power. This B.E.F. is new in men and material, but it has the same spirit that brought about the marvel of Dunkirk. These men had no illusions about their task, but they cheered at sight of the ships, went up the gangways jauntily, and cheered ...

... It is believed that ships of the Allied navies were shelling areas at .the back of Dunkirk. Although machine-gunned, bombed, and shelled, working parties at Dunkirk yesterday went out and reverently buried the Allied dead. SEQUEL TO CROSSROADS COLLISION ...