... for the elusive wild violet, or noting where the foxgloves grew tallest. And now. he was back from the glorious tragedy of Dunkirk, his face burned with sun and sand, grown a bit taller, too, with the alert bearing of the soldier. Gone for ever the quiet ...

... in Margate Cemetery to-day The grave ir among those of British and French soldiers and sailors killed in the evacuation of Dunkirk. The airman, a 27-years-old N.C.0., was strangled by the cords of his parachute which caught in the tail of his 'plane. The ...

... and wanted to serve it, and he also wanted work. Bedworth B.E.F. Man Married One of the members of the B.E.F evacuated from Dunkirk - Sapper Sydney Loraine Elliott, of Bedworth was married, at Bedworth Parish Church, this week, to Miss Dorothy May Bates ...

... moves s * partnered by David .^4 wing - . ibid 11 i: West Bromwich Adams; Shaw, f bowery. McNab; .1 grove, Jones (H.)> son. Dunkirk PLy for t f Birmingham’s on Saturday may IPI m ,lh one of their players the great evacuate Devey. the club j, came away ron ...

... finished second to Battleship in the Grand National of 1938. Socks for Men of B.E.F. During the period of the evacuation from Dunkirk, urgent appeal was sent out from the office of the Territorial Force Association for socks for the men who had returned. To ...

... Coventry B.E.F. man, Corporal W. A. Farrimond, of the Royal Corps of Signals, who recently arrived home on leave after the Dunkirk evacuation, was to-day married at St. Alban’s Church, Stoke Heath, to Miss L. Craig, 38, Blackberry Lane. Best man was Mr ...

... the God of Battles, thanking Him for His help accorded to our boys who have so miraculously escaped from the Nazi trap at Dunkirk. We were invited to unite in prayer for the Allies’ success; it now behoves us to show our gratitude for such a great achievement ...

... Barracks Market. A; he looked, he thought of the stories of troops of the B.E.F. evacuated in the epic withdrawal through Dunkirk, now bivouacking and billeted in Warwickshire—stories he had heard from lorry drivers, market gardeners and others, who had ...

... soldiers that I heard the story of how, when the battalion was lined up with about 20,000 more men, or one of the beaches near Dunkirk, a German warplane swooped down and at a low altitude flew right along the column. Unable to duck because of the congestion ...

... Ambrose and hi» r Street - Coventry, has ynn and Jack Cooper- . j-e ...

... from 7.30 until 9. Parcels Fund Meriden Mother’s Appreciation Among the men who took part in the great rearguard action to Dunkirk was Driver Tom Threadgold, of the Royal Warwicks and a native of Meriden. While he was in France he received two “Midland ...

... War preparing to *■ rom a South-East three of the busiest ? A,, helping members of anti the Y.M.C.A. to Allied troops Ir Dunkirk. working on jkati f or most of a t the port have ween midnight and \ melons of tea and »the pies have been ~ * Army and troops ...