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Killed In*Action

... John Liddle. who was reported missinß in Norway on April ‘2B. Is now in a Nazi prison camp. Wounded in Flanders Wounded in the evacuation from Flanders. Corporal Ernest Wylie, whose home address is at la. Exeter Street. Gateshead. has arrived safely in ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
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PREMIER'S REVIEW

... acceptable or unpalatable, remains unsullied, and Mr. Churchill minimised nothing. He did not call evacuation a victory, and plainly said that evacuation will not win wars. Equally, he showed that no other alternative was open to the Allied forces after ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
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PREMIER’S SURVEY AND WARNING TN a stirring speech, the Prime Minister, on Tuesday in the House of Commons, ..

... on Tuesday in the House of Commons, surveyed the military position, notably the evacuation of the greater part of the B.E.F. and a large number of French troops from Flanders. No fewer than 335,000 were brought to this country from Dunkirk, despite concentrated ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 147 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Fighf With Prisoner

... Colllngwood Street, Felling, lately back from Flanders, Is able to tell his relatives and friends is one of liow he got hand wounded drafted France immediately. His wife, who gave their house up when she was evacuated, is living with her sisterin-law in Chepstow ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Winlaton Man Missing

... 15. Cromwell Avenue, Wlnlaton, Blaydon, that her son. Private Richard Rogerson, was missing when his regiment was evacuated from Flanders. He was 28 years of age and spent seven years abroad with richard rogersox the Army. Husband In Hospital A long spell ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 139 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Grand Cross Award

... Cross Award Last week he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour for gallant work in connection with the evacuation of Flanders. Now 60. he was until a year ago Commander-in-Chief of the French Mediterranean Fleet, and w'hen war broke out was ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIES FIGHT WITH CLOSE UNITY

... was no sign of the third. Steadiness Unequalled It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders a combined Allied operation, during which the British and French are working in the closest unity with a steadiness never ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

the coast, 1 where the military police took charge of him. The soldier said that the German burst into tears

... home some days before the general withdrawal. News that two Ayton men, John Burn and David Millar, had been safely evacuated from Flanders was received last week. News has been received during the week-end -that Driver Win. Voung, Coldstream, who was with ...

STATEMENT TO-DAY > BY PREMIER

... important statements will be made in the House of Commons this afternoon. The Prime Minister will deal with the evacuation of the B.E.P. from Flanders, and Mr. Attlee will make a statement, in reply to a question by Mr. Geoffrey Mander, M.P, about the allocation ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MURTON PRESENTATION

... Lodge. Alnwick Mourns Duke Killed In Flanders A LNWICK was a town of mourning to-day for the Duke of Northumberland, who, as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, was killed the thick of the rearguard action Flanders. Flags were flown half-mast from public ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 479 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

U.S. VIEW

... of Stockton Town Council stood in silence last night a tribute to the 30,000 men killed, wounded or missing in the evacuation of Flanders; and as an expression of thankfulness' that many as 335.000 had been successfully brought home. On behalf of the Royal ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 181 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMANS FOILED

... Meanwhile the German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by ming flood waters, which Allied engineers have released over the Flanders plain. has redoubled its efforts to out off the French rearguard, which is fighting its way to the mast. This force—part ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 1 | Tags: none