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Commemorating Dunkirk

... Commemorating Dunkirk rPHE authorities are considering the issue of a special badge or medal to those soldiers who were present the evacuation of Dunkirk, Presumably it the occasion wns commemorated with medal it would enable soldiers to wear the appropriate ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 312 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED the recommendation General the Allied Armies, General Blanchard; Couimander the Armies the has been awarded the Grand Cross the Legion Honour, and General whose wise handling of the retreat Dun kirk resulted the saving of the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EMBARKATION ONE PENNY OF MORE DUNKIRK

... EMBARKATION ONE PENNY OF MORE DUNKIRK Lincoln Police Court WELCOME TO NEW POLICE CHIEF Taking Over at Trying and Anxious Time ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 21 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TORKSEY MAN SAFE FROM DUNKIRK

... TORKSEY MAN SAFE FROM DUNKIRK STOItY of German parachutists of 16 and 16 years of age. terrified **• the sight of bayonet, is told by Kenneth Wilkinson, of Torksey, Lincoln, who has returned home with the B.E.F. after being on active service in France ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 339 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

330,000 Men of Allied Armies Safely Ferried From Dunkirk

... 330,000 Men of Allied Armies Safely Ferried From Dunkirk I, \ of the defenders of Dunkirk, tb* heroic rearguard that held the (jermbns at bay while-the main the trip the German* had set for 'hem, hate now re:uhe ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 358 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Nazis Make Ferocious, But Vain Attacks on Dunkirk: Evacuation Goes On

... Nazis Make Ferocious, But Vain Attacks on Dunkirk: Evacuation Goes On GERMAN attacks arc continuing, but in vain, against the fortified area of Dunkirk. In spite of artillery and air bombardment, the embarkation of the troops is still going on. Across ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 834 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

To-day’s Communiques FRENCH: On land and sea, and in the alt, the French and British Forces at Dunkirk are

... E.F. on both sides Dunkirk, which is meeting with stubborn resistance in very difficult terrain, is making good progress. Despite the bad weather our Air Force made further successful attacks yesterday on troops embaiking at Dunkirk and intervened In ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HOSPITAL SHIP NURSE TELLS OF

... letters to her parents the BE.F, evacuation from Dunkirk, tells of the merciless bombing and madiine-gunnlnc by the Nazis of a 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: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALLIES AWAIT DUCES FIRST MOVE:

... MERCHANT SHIPPING LOSSES AT DUNKIRK 24,000 TONS Far Less Than Expected British mercantile shipping lost in the Dunkirk operations amounted to 24, yon totiSj, This figure given Admiralty statement today. Losses at Dunkirk must t-e regarded as far less ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

repelled. “ A >ubmdri

... Lifeboatmen Shirked Dunkirk: Dismissed 'j'H E cox wain and motor mechanic The report adds ;s, beng iiiiubte of the Hythe Lifeboat, which did not obey a request by the Naval authorities at Dover to assist in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, have been ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 235 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

They Could No 4 Understand

... and during the five journeys we made and from Dunkirk I should think brought back between 1,900 and 2,000 British and French troops. There were no Belgians amongst them. On our first visit to Dunkirk met with terrific air attacks, but our request we ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 236 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Nothing Lacking

... have asked for one things extra the result of the experience two of 'officers, and about eight the men who got back from Dunkirk. I rang up the War Office for one very important item. Though it not authorised store, they have token word for that it is ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 183 | Page: 1 | Tags: none