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HERE is Manchester Corporation’s first gas-driven bus, now in service. It runs eight and a half miles at one ..

... letter which reached Bury to-day. After expanding all our ammunition we blew up our guns. We wandered about the beach at Dunkirk for nearly two days without food and began to despair. Then discovered a water-logged rowing boat and bailed out the water ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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Letters

... are fighting ? Didsbury. Indignant. The Guards You report that one unit of a Guards regiment, on arrival in Britain from Dunkirk, marched down the quays in perfect formation. My private war diary of 1914- 1917 reads on Passchendaele ; We relieved the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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STOCKPORT

... or members of the Forces in England to members of the Forces in England, 2 id. French soldiers landed in this country from Dunkirk were allowed to send letters to relatives in France free of charge. This concession still holds good, but will soon be cancelled ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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NAZIS “These Were Men

... “Therefore they will be treated as brave soldiers deserve.” High tribute to the evacuation of the British and French troops from Dunkirk was paid to-day by the Soviet official organ Izvestia, estimating that over “ 200,000 of the nearly 300.000 British troops ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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U.S. Navy to Send Us Bombers

... has been received in Heywood that Sergeant Stanley Wilkin, aged 28, of the Royal Artillery, has been killed in action in Dunkirk. His father, Mr. C. Wilkin, was killed in the last war while with the 2nd Manchester Regiment. RHEUMATIC & Gout Pills. SURE ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 296 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

I COMB OUT |

... LAMBART, who is missing believed killed while commanding H.M.S. Grive, a Fleet Air Arm tender, sunk during the evacuation of Dunkirk, is the brother and heir presumptive of Field-Marshal the Earl of Cavan. Captain Lambart. who is 66, served in the Dardanelles ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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Captive

... measures which may be ■ necessary for the conservation ! of sugar supplies.” Killed in Sight of Safety WAITING on the beach at Dunkirk, only five minutes before a ship would have taken him off, Lance-Corporal T. W, Studley, of Pleasant-street, Harpurhey, Manchester ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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CW-,

... the sentence of death on a woman. Eager New Pilots heroic work of the R.A.F. in France, particularly of those battling over Dunkirk, is having an inspiring effect on R.A.F. pilots who are coming to the end of their training. This week-end I met a young pilot ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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Earl Says He Did Not Know He was Being Married

... who was introduced to the crowd by Alderman Joe Toole, a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, said little about the epic of Dunkirk, in which he took part. MUST BE CHECKED But he warned his hearers of Fifth Column dangers which will grow unless rigorously ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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SAILORS MANNED BOATS

... of the Hythe lifeboat crew for 38 years. He was said at the time to have declared to an interviewer he declined to go to Dunkirk because he was asked to drive the boat on the sands. I will defend my own shore with the next man, but here I had to use my ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 376 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Zeebrugge Was

... Zeebrugge Was Dunkirk May Cause False Optimism T ET’S have all the planes and tanks we can get; they are worth all the effort we can make an extra shilling on the income tax, the loss of all our luxuries, and the hardest, most unremitting work. We’ve ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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2 QUESTSO

... (Lab., if he will consider a special British Medal to women who went to *, anrt nce Belgium by land, ft in * , also took me Dunkirk evacuation. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 401 | Page: 5 | Tags: none