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PIONEER'S PHILOSOPHIC CCXIIMENT THREE IN ONE FAMILY

... FAMILY So far as is known at present all Skegnes, members of the British Expeditionary Force got away safely through the Dunkirk epic. though one officer has been wounded. It has been an anxious time for relatives. and the postman has been met with t ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Skegness News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

They Helped To Make History

... home up the Thames yesterday. It constated of mart than of the small pleasure craft which did such valiant work during the Dunkirk evaeua. tloo. Under London's famous bridges and past the Houses of Parliament the little Sect made its way to home moorings ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 182 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

W. Lord's Gardening Notes appear every Saturday

... within the bounds of the fortified area of Dunkirk and the arrival of British and Belgian units has placed at the disposal of the commanding officer more eff - ecti;is than ar; necessary for the defence of Dunkirk. Consequently, many of these units have ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 370 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THREE THINGS POINT TO VICTORY By EVENING MAIL MILITARY EXPERT

... EXPERT pART of the glorious and terrible story can be told. The very last chapter is still happening on the foreshores of Dunkirk. . . . This is not the place, and I have not the power, to pay a Just tribute to the Armies who superbly and almost unbelievably ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

orphan's cycle theft

... Pride in Dunkirk Tribute to the Dunkirk evacuation feat Is paid by the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. R G. Menzies. in a message to the British Government He states: “Every Australian has watched with pride the great feat of arms at Dunkirk. The amazing ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 258 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOUNDED AIRMAN'S ESCAPE

... TOWED BY MINESWEEPER AFTER PARACHUTE DROP. A 25-year-old airman, an ex-Cardiff High School boy, who was on patrol during the Dunkirk evacuation, had a remarkable escape when, although wounded, he dropped 8,000 feet by parachute and was towed safety by a ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LINCOLNSHIRE NEWS-REEL

... LINCOLNSHIRE NEWS-REEL Home from Dunkirk BOSTONIAN, Mr. Walter G. Smith, of 49, Pulvertoft Lane, who went through the trials and hardships the evacuation from Dunkirk, last week told the Standard” of his experiences during that fighting retreat the B ...

UTTNDED BY SHRAPNEL

... UTTNDED BY SHRAPNEL GUNNER RICHARD BROWN. After being wounded by shrapnel in the retreat to Dunkirk, Gunner Richard Brown. 3s-year-cld son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Brown. of Wright Avenue. Ripley, is convalescent. Groner Brown ICI only married at Whitsuntide ...

KILLED BY SHELL

... son of Mr. A. A. Scholes and Councillor Mrs. Scholee, of Vine-street. He was hit by a piece of shell while on his way to Dunkirk. Paymaster-Lieut. A. M. L. Merry, R.N.V.R., the 30-years-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Merry, of Ho'beach, an Old Stamfordian ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Nothing Lacking

... have asked for one things extra the result of the experience two of 'officers, and about eight the men who got back from Dunkirk. I rang up the War Office for one very important item. Though it not authorised store, they have token word for that it is ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 183 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CHILDREN

... the King fired two magazines of 30 rounds each a target 200 yards off. Survived Dunkirk: Killed Near Home Survivor of the battle in Northern Prance and the bombing of Dunkirk. Private Richard John Draper (3S). of the R.A.M.C.. arrived Saturday night Usk ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 636 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NOTTM. BUS DRIVER IN THE RETREAT

... Smith shared to the full the rigours of the fighting retreat to Dunkirk, and the perils of embarkation under a hail of bullets and bombs. We were trapped the Germans in a bottle neck near Dunkirk, he told the Post. had to fight day and night for 17 days ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 325 | Page: 6 | Tags: none