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STATION SCENES IN BIRMINGHAM

... STATION SCENES IN BIRMINGHAM MIDLAND TROOPS’ EXPERIENCES The evacuation of the B.E.F. and French troops from Dunkirk continued throughout the night and to-day. The disembarkation of war-weary but still wonderfully cheerful fighting men is being carried ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 159 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HAVE BEEN EVACUATED ALLIES DETERMINED TO FIGHT

... CRAFT OF ALL KINDS WENT TO AND FRO ACROSS THE CHANNEL. According to a French estimate more than 100,000 men have been evacuated from Flanders, while other unofficial reports suggest that the majority of the B.E.F. have now been taken off. On the other hand ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 583 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPIRIT UNDAUNTED

... in England,” but apparently the general feeling was that it is good to be Anywhere in England ” sfter their experiences in Flanders. A small crowd drinking tea as if it were champaigne raised a hearty laugh when one of their number noticed a cinema poster ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 907 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RAF. ATTACKS GO ON FROM DAWN TO DUSK

... engaged in desperate fighting up to yesterday. According to some estimates, only a division of Allied troops now remains in Flanders. Among those safely landed in England were increasing numbers of General Prioux’s gallant French Army who had hacked their ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1052 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CE AIR BATTLE

... withdrawal of Allied troops d. Hour after hour the German * . protected by swarms of ' > came over in an attempt to the evacuating Army, and hour the R.A.F. fighters waged a fi war against them. the British fighter pilots had ° 56 bombers and fighters ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 784 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OUR MEN OF IRON

... IRON It was revealed in London yesterday that the crew of a British ship ironed the clothes of nurses whom they evacuated from the Flanders coast. The ship had made its third trip across the North Sea then it picked up a party of hospital nurses who were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 174 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SOMME OPERATIONS

... of these men is becoming more and more difficult. It was emphasised in London to-day that the withdrawal 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: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 445 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ROLL OUT THE BARREL

... ROLL OUT THE BARREL HTHERE are many angles to the confused collective * story brought back from Flanders by our evacuated troops. But the cheerful sangfroid they must all have shown under fire and battery is a general impression. As usual with the average ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 411 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

R.A.F. ATTACKS GO ON FROM DAWN TO DUSK

... to-day of the latest operations came in the following Air Ministry statement: Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-east Coast of France. Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Sports Argus
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1093 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Muirheaa Memories

... far West I mean, I belie' a' born in California.” . ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 674 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A Stupendous Feat

... South-East Coast port yesterday morning of a number of steamers laden with Allied troops from Flanders, a Press Association correspondent writes: This mass evacuation is a stupendous feat, only made possible by the efficiency of the Royal Navy, the Mercantile ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 308 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AY TO DUNKIRK rman Counter-Attack on 6 Somme Front Repulsed

... AY TO DUNKIRK rman Counter-Attack on Somme Front Repulsed AND MORE MEMBERS OF THE B.E.F. ARE BEING LANDED FROM FLANDERS, THE GREATER PART OF THE k*'® DIVISION OF GENERAL PRIOUX’S army has succeeded in WAY THROUGH THE GERMANS AND HAS JOINED THE ARMY Dunkirk ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 955 | Page: 1 | Tags: none