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DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED Paris, Monday.—Upon tha recommendation of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief the Allied armies. General Blanchard, commander of the armies in the north east, has been awarded tha Grand Cross the Legion of Honour and Ceneral ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK

... SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK NAZI COMMUNIQUE ADMISSION To-day's German communique says:—- The attack against Dunkirk from the West, the South, and the East, is slowly making progress. The difficult terrain, which is flooded and trenched by numerous ditches ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NAZIS STILL BATTER AWAY AT DUNKIRK

... ground. It is believed that ships of the Allied Navies were shelling areas at the back of Dunkirk. Although machine-gunned, bombed and shelled, working parties at Dunkirk yesterday went out and reverently buried the Allied dead. Fighting 16 Days We have ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1733 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BOMBED ON BEACH

... and the final evacuation by the Navy of the men of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. He told an Echo reporter how the British forces are being taken out of blazing and bomb-blasted Dunkirk not in battalions, nor yet in companies, but man by man, under the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 976 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL MEN BACK FROM FLANDERS

... pals had not then reached Dunkirk. Terrible Hazards Terrible hazards while crossing the Channel were told by Pte. .Leslie Arnold, member of the 44 Citizen machine room staff, who is just back. After retreating 2b miles Dunkirk, he had to wade into the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AUSTRALIAN PRIDE IN B.E.F

... Minister, has sent the following cable to Mr. Churchill: Every Australian has watched with pride the great feat of the Army at Dunkirk. Its amazing capacity to convert defeat into triumph inspires us, and the holding up of the German arms is of inestimable ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS' APPALLING LOSSES AT RETHEL

... magnificent 0 by all ranks enabled our men to take important s, s ' '°ftify them, and re-establish the situation this i° n from Dunkirk is proceeding with perfect V' d a French communique states that the greatest le nie have been taken off. \ Lne foremost French ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 968 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TWO BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPS BOMBED

... Tugs brought the men and women aboard to south-east ooas-t port. The Worthing (2.294 tons) which was attacked miles off Dunkirk by nine 'planes returned to another south-east coast port. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZI TANKS MOW DOWN REFUGEES

... NAZI TANKS MOW DOWN REFUGEES MARINES' COURAGE AT DUNKIRK PRAISED Still further evidence of Nazi brutality agai net refugees, was expressed a 23-yearsold anti-aircraft gunner, (ieorge Garmer, now on short leave in Belfast. Describing some his experiences ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 2 | Tags: none