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Dunkirk Rescuer

... Dunkirk Rescuer Married Our Bury Correspondent °n leave after his ship and he was wounded Chief Engine-room >, .Thomas Edwards, of , married in Glasgow Mary Edgar, whom working in the ShipyardswS 10 s now n s 40’s, was Mosquito, a gunboat which by bombers ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
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DUNKIRK PILOTS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK PILOTS DECORATED SQUADRON-LEADER PHILIP A. HUNTER, who led a formation which shot down 38 enemy planes in two patrols, was awarded the D.S.O. to-day. The award of 10 D F.C.s and 11 D.F.M.s —manv for heroism during the Dunkirk evacuation was also ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 629 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SOUTH AFRICA

... attack was made by 24 bombers off Dunkirk. The recipient of the honour is Mr. Eric Banner, of Mayfield Terrace, Cook-street, Rochdale. Mr. Banner was taking part in the last phase of the heroic withdrawal from Dunkirk. His boat was one of hundreds of ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 277 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS SALES

... treadle or power drive: nrly.ucw: cost £5O, acc.£ls.-E167 STOP PRESS BLAcWriars 2345 THREE D.S.O.s FOR DUNKIRK OFFICERS King conferred D.S.O. on three Dunkirk evacuation heroes: Lieutenantcolonel Desmond Harrison (Royal Engineers). Lieutenant-colonel T. F. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Italian Bases Bombed

... overboard when chased by a French warship. (Press Association War Special and British United Press messages.) Carried Violin in Dunkirk Retreat From Our Ashton Correspondent When Driver Edwin Taylor, R.A.S.C., of Rowsley-strcet, Beswick, Manchester, went to ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 201 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

COMING OF AGE

... their son, JOHN ALAN, now in England with the B.E.F. Also our sincere Thanhs to all those who helped the evacuation from Dunkirk. Avonlea, Wythenshawe Bead. Baguley, ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

TURKEY “IS

... appeared in the defended list. Dunkirk Loss Not Heavy The Admiralty announce to-day that the total British mercantile tonnage lost by enemy action in the week ended midnight, Sunday, June 2. was 78,715 tons. Excluding Dunkirk the figures were British 11 ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 623 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

British

... Had Home’ '^ (Lab., Ayr and Bute) is ® ecretar y or War next gather he is aware that men in 1 Expeditionary Force who from Dunkirk were with railway vouchers to 'Vail/ 1011165 many of them * t 0 borrow money and Wflce ihe way, that parents had sending some ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 338 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IS HOME

... four hours too early. I want to get it over,” he said. Now Tommy is back at his home in Langworthy Estate, Salford, from Dunkirk. He had brand new moustache. There was no time to shave out there,” he explained to me to-day. His twenty-year-old wife —they ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 371 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OFFICES GUARDED

... arrested. Some of the sons of men arrested to-day are serving with the British Army and are expected hortfe after fighting at Dunkirk, Paul Protano, one of the few Italianborn people still free, told the Manchester Evening News that he had lived in Manchester ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OFFICER GAVE

... OFFICER GAVE WHILE defending an outpost covering a rearguard action near Dunkirk, Second-Lieutenant J. S. Bolt, a member of Manchester Rugby Union Football Club, was killed, it was learned to-day. Lieut. Bolt was the son of Mr. J. O. Bolt, of Stalybridge ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 160 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

IHajuljfsttr (iKtnsa Iftos

... the world at large—than that spectacle of the imperturbable guardsman walking down one of the ruined main thoroughfares of Dunkirk, amid thunderous bombardment, with his rifle slung across his back and a rescued baby under each arm! The story goes that ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 209 | Page: 2 | Tags: none