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Volunteer Helped To Row Troops From Dunk irk Beaches

... A MAN who until a few weeks ago was a cinema manager in a London suburb today recounted his adventures in the inferno of Dunkirk. He responded to an appeal for men to help evacuate the B.E.F. and was in charge of a small motor cruiser with two other men ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... him was Louis Barnett who was known as 'Pongo.' NAZIS CLAIM TO BE IN DUNKIRK House to House Fighting , Berlin, Tuesday. TODAY'S official German communique says: The fighting for Dunkirk is nearing its end. Our troops penetrated into the town and took the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

M.P• Alleges B.E.F. Men Scandal mR. A. SLOAN (Labour, Ayr '` and Bute) is to ask the Secretary for War

... Secretary for War next Tuesday whether he Is aware that men of the British Expeditionary Force who arrived In England from Dunkirk were not supplied with railway vouchers to visit their homes, that many of them had to walk and to borrow money and beg food ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Allies Fight on Against World's Largest Attacking Force

... Allies Fight on Against World's Largest Attacking Force On land and sea, and in the air, the Frencth and British forces at Dunkirk are continuing in complete solidarity the stubborn fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation. The enemy ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 482 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DECKS CRAMMED

... crossing the decks n* ships alreariv unloaded. One small cease! which landed not more than 30 troops early today haf left Dunkirk under heavy shell fird but not a man on board was hit. Several thousand F rencn troops; have been among those landed thief ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ROOSEVELT IN TOUCH WITH DUCE REPORT

... General Weygand has cited In army orders Admiral Abrial, who was the French naval commander at Dunkirk and Admiral Platon. The 'atter aprcinted Governor of Dunkirk in tragic circumstances magnificently assured the defence of the place to the end. the order ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

25 YEARS R.C. PARISH PRIEST IN NORTH SHIELDS

... build a church there. St Joseph's Church was accordingly built. St Cuthbert's parish was then split. M.P. AND CIVILIANS' DUNKIRK VESSELS Cz-pla'n L. F. Plugge (Cuni..zerviitivo. Rochester) will ask the Minister of Shipping next Wednesday whether it is ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ported in all these areas, but it is not yet possible to say how many there are or vdicther these

... which exists between the British and French forces was emphasised by a French liaison officer who has just returned from Dunkirk. He told a Press Association ret er today that when the retreat began he was in Behgues and when communications were interfered ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MALTA'S EIGHT AIR ATTACKS

... Malta, passing over Kalafrana and Halfar. A number of bombs were dropped but little damage was done Shields Men Back From Dunkirk In the second raid bombs fell on a new but empty hospital. There were five civilian casualties in this rid. During the morning ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 391 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Shields B.E.F. Man Home-5.30 a.m. Surprise for Parents

... Private William Taylor, of the A.M.P.C.. whose home is at 28, upper Reed Street. North Shields, is sate in England after the Dunkirk evacuation. Private Taylor, who is 38. had served seven years with the regular army and five with the Supplementary Reserve ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

RETURN PAPER

... the pages of coupons could be deposited with a retailer, it was illegal for a retailer to retain the whole book. Shields Dunkirk Hero Safe When the war began in September, Pte. James E. Ellis, 27, of 13, Simpson Street, Chirton, North Shields, was in ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 452 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

2 BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPS BOMBED

... brought the men and women aboard to a South East coast port. . . The Worthing (2.294 tons) which was attacked six miles off Dunkirk by, nine Nazi planes returned to another South coast port. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 1 | Tags: none