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... The following is au extract• from a letter written to a friend by a Kirkwall nieruher of the B.E.F. who took part in the Dunkirk evacuation: Dear —, • _. . Seeing Fm not doing much to-night. I thought I would just sit down and write you a few lines. ...
... am• munition dumps and troops. Seventy-eight Nazi machines were shot down or seriously damaged during the operations around Dunkirk alone on Saturday—a new record for the R.A.F. A further thirty-five were shot down on Sunday, making 113 for two days. The ...
... to Orkney lads serving with the Forces, and they have been particularly plentiful during and &Mee the Flanders battle and Dunkirk evacuation in which the B.E.F. figured. Newp has flashed here and there like wildfire that so and so is missimtdid you hear ...
... speaker carried on to end, and sat down with a feeling that, compared to addressing a Stenwick audience, the retreat from Dunkirk was a bunday•school picnic. He smiled a twisted smile as there came from Godfrey hitch the loud-voiced comment: fired ;sir ...
... Wocildrage. jr. 26 W. Ilunie No. 4 Rink, J. Irvine G. Smith R. Frutoti A. Alien . C. Archibald W. May 27 A. Pottinger 13 THE DUNKIRK EVACUA- M.P.'s Advocate Special Medals or Awards The l'rime Minister was asked by Mr Elvis Elmith in the House of Commons ...
... AJAX FOUR-FIFTHS OF B.E.F. SAVED More than four-fifths of the D.E.F. has been saved, and evacuation still goes on. Outride Dunkirk a British division is fighting the last stages of the most fearful rearguard action in history; from the harbour and beaches ...
... EIPONDENT. When the Allied armies, withdraw:l4 to the coast after the collapse of th e main Belgian forces, placed a ring mind Dunkirk and the adjacent coast, the de. fended periphery became known as the Corunna Line. Its commemorates another his- toric rearguard ...
... ng to the active defence of the country. A young soldier, employed there as a me/i--mager, home on 48-hours' leave after Dunkirk, assured me this morning in all sincerity that the war will be over by November. and we will have won. ion can smile and you ...