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... BIRTHDAY GIFT. Parcel Found On Field of Flanders. A birthday present sent off by her soldier son in Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. A. (ireig, of Bonnygate, Coupar Angus, Fifeshire. The parcel, battered and torn ...
... Paris ,stated last night that the evacuation was without precedent in military 'history. Losses had been kept down I to the absolute minimum. Even up to three days ago It was thought that it would not be possible to evacuate more than 100.000 men. The results ...
... were engaged in long conversations by the Princess on the miraculous evacuation from Dunkirk. and were encouraged to tell her in their own words of their individual , adventures in Flanders. ...
... country from Flanders. Neighbours of the Brabiners, whose hoine is at 56, Henshaw Avenue, are the two brothers, Privates Jonathan and Tom Irvine, who are also safe after serving with the Auxiliary Pioneer Corps in Flanders. Both were evacuated from Boulogne ...
... TRIUMPH THE King Pays Tribute to Services. NIOVING message of adinira lion and sympathy for the her of the Flanders rearguard battle , has been received from the t) Nlr. Winston Churchill, p ri m, Minister and Minister of Vence. It reads:— .4L 4 ,4411 ...
... 000 Nazi troops engaged in the Flanders battles, and in Holland, Germany suffered between 1 400,000 and 500,000 casualties. About 80 divisions were used 'against the Allies in the battle 'which ended with the evacuation of Dunkirk. Out of these there ...
... dangerous. selves admitted their terrible folly in taking no steps to evacuate STAGES OF BEING BOMBED. refugees before danger came and It is five years since Wingprohibiting any evacuation whatsoever Commander Hodsoll helped to start the once the field army ...
... 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 beleagured in Flanders. The full story of their part and of the brilliant naval operations which enabled' ...
... Percy Crabbe (R.A.M.C.), of 37, Manor Lane. Shipley, home from Flanders. He told The Yorkshire Observer When most of the troops had got away from Dunkirk the authorities decided to evacuate some of thel R.A.M.C. men. leaving the rest behind i to look ...
... but now one feels wasted - Cheer up. This Is not the end. I just the beginning. lie spent his two days' leave home to his evacuated wife and fa In the West-country. It is the first I• he has seen our empty roads, for went overseas with the first contin ...
... all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied forces In Flanders, it is stated here. 'Arras, Valenciennes. and Courtrai, where they were linked up with the Belgian Army ...
... LONDON, Wednesday. I FOUND her sitting among a group of Army nurses who .have returned from heroic work among the B.E.F. in Flanders, a little Yorkshire with v.avy, aubuin hair and a dusting of freckles on her nose. She was nursing a tin hat with the mark ...