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EVENING EXPRESS

... leaving All Souls’ Church, Collingwood-street, Liverpool, after their wedding. The bridegroom was made sergeant in the field at Dunkirk. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 32 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FIRST-CLASS GEAR

... for one two things extra as the result of the experience of two of officers and about eight of the men who got back from Dunkirk. I rang up the War Office for one very important item. Though it is not an authorised store they nave taken my word for it ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 427 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AIRMAN TOWED TO SAFETY

... AIRMAN TOWED TO SAFETY 25-year-old airman who was on patrol during the Dunkirk evacuation, had a remarkable escape when, although wounded, he dropped 8,000 feet by parachute before being towed to safety by a minesweeper. r>. . M He is Flying Officer Robert ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 212 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ONE VESSEL IS ABANDONED

... shells in Dunkirk —have been landed in a south-east coast port, and handled and tended as carefully as any casualties. They have been given cigarettes, water, food and tea just our own boys. These wounded were tended in hospital near Dunkirk by our men ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 422 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

725 CIVILIANS GAVE THEIR LIVES

... Warrender said 125 civilians were killed and 81 wounded in aiding the Navy to remove men of the B.E.F. and French Army from Dunkirk. Of these, four killed and two wounded were civilian volunteers and rest the men of the Merchant Navy He expressed the profound ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LEAVE FOR MEN FROM OVERSEAS FREE TRAVEL WARRANTS

... WARRANTS Mr. Eden announced in the House of Commons today that free travelling warrants issued to men of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk who went on leave applied also to troops recently evacuated from Narvik. hoped, except where the exigencies of the service ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 66 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HAPPY SURPRISE FOR PARENTS

... was sunk in the Dunkirk evacuation operations, has given his parents at St. Helens a fdeasant surprise, the shape of a etter informing tnem that he is safe. He had, he says, been transferred to another ship a fortnight before the Dunkirk evacuation. Lieut ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 293 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THEY WILL WANT A “ FULL LIFE ”

... THEY WILL WANT A FULL LIFE The lads of Dunkirk and Narvik will not be satisfied with a promise of a land fit for heroes to live in,’ said Mr. Robert Burns, speaking at the Liverpool Boleader Club luncheon today. “ They will want the chance of a full life ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 87 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Heir tanks become Embedded in mud

... airfields in V *ng more than 30 tons of Ves - coy, nor front enemy °ys have been attacked oc casions. AT i!,!';-,,,. Dunkirk a?i- Dunkirk, according to tjjO) va South-East Coast !, sf| ffi r , „ b everal with k if;, started, counter- 2S.t° regain ery and ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1296 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GUARDSMAN KENNEDY

... PONTING. Gunner Charles Ponting, aged 30, son of Mrs. M Ponting, of Greenside, Brunswick-road, Liverpool, has been lost in the Dunkirk withdrawal. He has been in th ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 77 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN CLAIMS

... town of Bergues. “The whole region around Dunkirk which is still in the hands of the enemy, is under constant and heavy artillery fire. Fighter ’planes and Stuka (dive bomber) units continued their attacks on Dunkirk yesterday. They sank two destroyers, one ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 530 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PYJAMAS FOR TROOPS

... 000 pyjama suits, 30.000 dressing gowns and tens of thousands of slippers was necessitated by the return of the troops from Dunkirk, the Red Cross and St. John war organisation announced today. Recent fighting resulted in , great losses of Red Cross material ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 86 | Page: 1 | Tags: none