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ALLIES IN FEROCIOUS FIGHT AT DUNKIRK

... ALLIES IN FEROCIOUS FIGHT AT DUNKIRK losses enormous Effective defence v CONTINUES troops leave ' V es have continued uninterruptedly with the r ' their troops from Dunkirk, the fighting a ferocit unparalleled in the present camlng to reports reaching ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1387 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

GERMANS BOMB AND SHELL DUNKIRK

... GERMANS BOMB AND SHELL DUNKIRK ALLIED AIRCRAFT SPOT IMPORTANT MOVES EVACUATION SPEED-UP British and French soldiers evacuated from Flanders reached British ports to-day and shared a single hope— that was to get back to the battle zone and have another ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1459 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DERBY MAN'S ORDEAL AT DUNKIRK

... DERBY MAN'S ORDEAL AT DUNKIRK MACHINE-GUNNED AND BOMBED ALL DAY OOMBED and machine-gunned while leaving Dunkirk Derby man serving with the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, as now in a north country hospital. He is Sergeant W. Brailsford, whose home address ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

M.P. AND MEN FROM DUNKIRK

... M.P. AND MEN FROM DUNKIRK . \ Sloan (Lab., Ayr and Bute) i* , fl ; k the Secretary for War next i whether he is aware that men the British Expeditionary Force who orrived in England from JJunkirk were & cunpliel with railway vouchers n their homes, that ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRITAIN LOST 24,000 TONS MERCHANT SHIPPING AT DUNKIRK

... which tons was lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures were: British. ships, 54.71.} tons; Allied, four ships, 17,913 tons: neutral, three ships, tons; total, ships, 80..>51 tons. Losses at Dunkirk must be regarded far loss than ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LIFEBOAT COXSWAIN WHO REFUSED REQUEST TO GO TO DUNKIRK

... direct to Dunkirk, were instrumental in s&ving many soldiers. COXSWAIN S EXPLANATION Coxswain H. Griggs had been a member of the Hythe lifeboat crew for years. He was said at the time to have declared to an interviewer that he declined to to Dunkirk because ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NIGHTMARE TRIP ACROSS CHANNEL

... the beaches at Dunkirk, was herself without food or water aboard, having had no time to replenish supplies since evacuating the troops from Dunkirk. PATHETIC SCENE Of all the tragic episodes in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, perhaps none has ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NEWS FOR HIM TOO

... NEWS FOR HIM TOO Trooper Thomas Kennedy, on Ipave after evacuation from Dunkirk answered the knock at the door of his home in Vernon-street, Belfast, yesterday, and was handed telegram. It was from the War Office, saying that he was iriissing. Trooper ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MISSING SON COMES HOME

... COMES HOME ONLY three-quarters of an hour before Private Francis Allan, of Tontine - street, Blackburn, reached home from Dunkirk, yesterday, his mother received telegram stating that he was missing. She collapsed on the pavement. Neighbours brought her ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE KING RECEIVES FRENCH ADMIRAL

... ADMIRAL Admiral abrial, hero of Dunkirk, was received audience by the King at Buckingham Palace to-day. Admiral Abrial the French Admiral who was in charge of the embarkation of the B.E.F. and the French troops at Dunkirk, and he ■was the last leave the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

D.F.C. PILOT

... shot down near Calais. While Dunkirk was being evacuated Dejpre was shot down the sands of Nieuport and wounded in the head. Using abandoned motor-cars and a motor-cycle, he reached British soldiers on t,he outskirts of Dunkirk and finally was brought to ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 122 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Merciless Bombing of Hospital Ship

... in letters to her parents the B.E.F. evacuation from Dunkirk, tells of the merciless bombing and machine-gunning by the Nazis of British hospital ship in mid- Channel. On her sixth crossing to Dunkirk nine Nazi 'planes raked the ship's deck and dropped ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 6 | Tags: none