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THRILLING STORIES

... throughout vesterday and all last night after being machine-gunned from the shore as they escaped, the last troops to leave Dunkirk arrived at ports along the South-East Coast of England, to-day, in rowing boats, a yacht, a motor-boat, and a collec- tion ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 80 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ST. HELENS OFFICER SAFE

... SHIP The parents of Lieutenant-Commander Ernest Gleave, R.N., of St. Helens, who was reported sunk on the King Orry in the Dunkirk evacuation on Monday, have received a letter from him saying he is safe. He had been transferred to another ship a fortnight ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 75 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Allied Troops Still Embarking As Nazis Renew Their Attacks DEFENDERS REMAIN CALM IN FACE OF SAVAGE ONSLAUGHT

... Enemy Planes Over Rhone Valley “To Impress Italy” The German land, sea and air forces have renewed their savage onslaught on Dunkirk, the French military spokesman stated to-day, in Paris. these operations are making the completion of evacuation of British ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 563 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... JUNE 6, 1940 Of Raids £3,600 In Under A Week! Three More People Give £250 Each Thanksgiving offerings for the deliverance of Dunkirk is evident by a remarkable jump in the Lord Mayor Liverpool’s War Fund figures. In less than week over | ISTMOBBS I \ tweed ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 72 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Echoes and Gossip of the Day —————— ■

... why not with him? , f* 'Cause there is no Santa Claus. * * * A Comedy Of Dunkirk Here is a story told me by a naval officer in charge of one of the ships during the Dunkirk episode! An English officer, who was all in. finding no place to sit down, let ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 648 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SEPARATED ARMIES

... ARMIES In the armies and divisions the morale was good, but the losses in men and material in the initial operations and at Dunkirk were catastrophic. Subsequent heroism, brilliant tactics and unceasing fighting never made up for this initial defeat. In ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 413 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR IN PHOTOGRAPHS

... WAR IN PHOTOGRAPHS Pictures of the withdrawal from Dunkirk and of the battle of the Somme are amons those to exhibited at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, for a fortnight beginning to-morrow afternoon. They form part of a series issued by the ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AIR MINISTRY (1 P.M.)

... destroyed or seriously damaged. Sixteen of our fighters are reported missing. At dawn this morning our fighter patrols over Dunkirk shot down 10 enemy fighters with the loss of one of our aircraft. Naval aircraft later bombed and sank an enemy torpedo boat ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 323 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

In Many Parts

... in H.M. Forces. Private Thomas H. Kewley, aged 21, of the King’s Own Royal Regiment, posted missing on June 13 after the Dunkirk withdrawal, resided with his parents at 37 Castlefield Road, West Derby, Liverpool. As Ginggr '* he was well-known in Bootle ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 602 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOUNDS

... WOUNDS Among the casualties in the Dunkirk evacuation is Sub-Lieut. Neville Lyon Humphreys, N-. younger son of Mr. and Mrs. William E, Humphreys, of 566 Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, who died of wounds in hospital In the South of England. Twenty-five years ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOST IN MONA’S QUEEN

... Snaefell when she was torpedoed in foreign waters during the Great War. The Mona’s Mr. J. E. Lyon. Queen was lost during the Dunkirk evacuation operations at the end of May. He leaves a widow, two daughters and three sons. The eldest son is serving in the ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHESHIRE PILOT MISSING

... Fluin Lane, Frodsham, is missing. Flying Officer Kerr was attached to an Auxiliary squadron, and was last seen flying over Dunkirk in single-seater Spitfire. He has ten years’ flying experience. He had been attached to a Cheshire squadron. ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 3 | Tags: none