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... DISMISSED Result Of Enquiry Held By R.N.L.I. DECLINED TO TAKE VESSEL TO DUNKIRK 14 ECAUSE of his action in refusing to take the Hythe lifeboat, the Viscountess Wakefield, to Dunkirk to assist in the evacuation of the B.E.F. a month ago. Coxswain H. ( ...
... 0 0 0 Corunna Line Strangely. the great withdrawal has a link with Folkestone. in that the ring of tr)ops round Dunkirk coverinft the withdrawal became known as the Corinna Line. We must go back 132 years to the battle of Corunna. Sir Jahn Moare accomplished ...
... the circumstancza in which the crew of the Hythe lifeboat. when requested by the Naval Authorities at Dover to proceed to Dunkirk to assist in the evacuation of the 8E.?.. declined to take their boat across the Channel. It %%RS decided that this was mainly ...
... magnificent work had bent done by our airmen the crying need for more 'planes was demonstrated time alter tune. Bombing raids on Dunkirk were described as terrific. but it was noticed that the German 'planes timed their attacks for thooe periods when R.A.F. patrols ...
... IHYTHE & DISTRICT NEWS Declined To Take Vessel To Dunkirk Prepared To .ircept Conditions InossyntouN I DEOPLE call me a coward. and I am resigning my position. said Coxswain H. (Buller) Griggs, of the Hythe Lifeboat, to the Folkestone and Hythe ...
... Coxswain Griggs induced not only his own crew but the crews of two other boats to refuse to take their boats from Dover to Dunkirk. ...
... Radio Officer Alfrod George Adams, attached to H.M.S. (Rive, was killed in action during the evacuation of the B.E.F. (torn Dunkirk. His parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Adams, of 74, Ashley Avenue. Cheriton. have received an official telegram informing them ...
... F . ATHEA 4RRI.YES That exi;l'aiiieiTli; ilev - o - t - inT - ot a father who, arriving home from Dunkirk and finding his cnildren gone. reached Caerphilly on Sunday nigat and had a happy reuruon on the following day. Wednesday the cnildlen were in school ...
... the South East coast in the return of officers and men of the B.E.F. and their French Allies after their withdrawal from Dunkirk. The names of places must remain anonymous for the present. however, but those who Inc in these parts have seen history made ...
... hxd to go on to the buuts in order to lound up and secure the oogs that were °vineries,. Tne lust dog to be cultatrked from Dunkirk. a beeattul Setter. belonging to U oldier litrounzoam. has 10 a lititift4.lllille Ut the Sirmingnam rnd branch 01 und they ...
... Allendale Street, Folkestone, and the late Mr. A. Hunt, was drowned when ship H.M.S. Wakeful was torpedoed and sunk off Dunkirk recently. He was 24 years of age. Leading Seaman Hunt had been married only six weeks. His wife was formerly Miss LBC. G. ...
... welcomed back this week the Folkestone and district ren who managed to get through with the B.E.F. when the withdrawal to Dunkirk took place. Not all our Folkestone lads. I fear. have returned:, some are stated to be missing though they may eventually ...