... efforts, but keep at full pressure throughout the summer months. As well as the masses of war material lost in the evacuation of Flanders, there was also a huge quantity of personal clothing. This must he replaced. If you experience short delay in obtaining ...

... of our men may be fully backed up by equipment and supplies.” Sir Arthur added they all rejoiced in the safe return from Flanders of many of Tyneside’s young men. It was decided to recommend that the proposed purchase tax coldected from the retailer and ...

... Thomson was killed in action near Moeres in Flanders during the Dunkirk evacuation. He was a machinegunner and a member of the rearguard action. He was killed less than six hours before the last troops from Flanders left Dunkirk shore. T.I E, with a small ...

... British forces at Dunkirk are continuing in complete solidarity the stubborn fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation. The enemy, showing the importance which he attaches to crossing the Somme. counter-attacked in this region. This cou ...

... officers included a one-armed' veteran of the last war. According to some estimates only a division of Allied troops now main in Flanders. FRENCH LANDED Among those safely landed in England were increasing numbers of! General Prioux's gallant French army who ...

... has influenced the Germans in moving so soon after the Flanders fight is, of course, the knowledge that more than 300,000 men (seasoned soldiers who kno w their methods) have only just been evacuated from Dunkirk and the enemy wants to get in a blow before ...

... the remainder of the BEF not evacuated He was received by the King at Buckingham Palace and invested the insignia of the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Oort's return reflects good progress made in evacuation of the BEF He was met at the station ...

... Army —on home service. Gnr. h. watson Killed in Flanders Private Norman Sawyer, of 8, King Street, Catchgate, Annfleld Plain, has heen reported by the War Office to have been killed in action in Flanders on May 26. Private Sawyer w a‘s formerly employed ...

... room at a Naval base on the South-East Coast of England helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than 335,000 officers and men of the Allied Forces beleaguered in Flanders, The full story of their part and of the brilliant naval operations which ...

... children in Sunday best crowded station platforms in outeY London yesterday to welcome British and French troops back from Flanders, as their trains steamed through the stations. Kiddies clamoured to buy chocolate and sweets to push into the hands of men ...

... Scott, of the Royal Artillery, residing at Crispen Road, Berwick, recounted the following ry of bis adventures during the evacuation from Bout, me a reporter while on leave last week. was attached to a searchlight battalion stationed Boulogne when the first ...

... do under orders of the Prussian High Command. Journal of an Optimist VOU would hear a iittle while ago of the troops from Flanders who pulled up in a station, and of how a working man there opened his wage-packet and spent eight shillings on little comforts ...