... In Dunkirk Harbour The initiative and enterprise by which hundreds of thousands of men were taken from the open beaches near Dunkirk in every conceivable kind of small craft has appealed to public imagination. That astonishing side of the great evacuation ...

... Souvenirs of Dunkirk Souvenirs of the withdrawal from Dunkirk take many forms, and perhaps the best exist only in the minds of those who saw incidents, sublime or humorous, that will remain as memories throughout life. Of the more tangible souvenirs, ...

... Dunkirk Record Mr. Attlee said that a record was being kept of all those regularly assisting in the evacuation at Dunkirk. It was not possible to keep a complete record of the many who gallantly gave their services. He would bear in mind the high praise ...

... MIRACLE AT DUNKIRK Thanksgiving at Holy Trinity Evensong at Holy Trinity yesterday was kept as a thanksgiving service for the miracle of Dunkirk. The Vicar (the Rev. G. W. Clitheroe), after referring to the national day of prayer observed on May 26, when ...

... DUNKIRK GALLANTRY OFFICERS DECORATED BY THE KING The King to-day decorated officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, during a 60- raile tour of a division of troops in the Southern Command. Three officers who received the D.S.O. were Lieut.-Colonel Desmond ...

... DUNKIRK THRILLING FEATS Further awards to our heroes of the air were announced to-day. There is one D. 5.0., ten D.F.C.’s and 11 D.F.M.’s. A number of the awards are for heroism during the Dunkirk evacuation. Squadron Leader Philip Algernon Hunter (aged ...

... SHIPS AT DUNKIRK THE Admiralty announce that the total British mercantile tonnage lost by enemy action in the week ending midnight, Sunday, June 2, was 78,715 tons, of which 24,000 tons was lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures ...

... NEARLY 100 DUNKIRK HEROES, Another large party of wounded soldiers was on Saturday afternoon j taken for a tour of the Shakespeare j Country; the arrangements were made Mr. Ernest C, Thomas , behalf of the Alexandra Musical Society. The men came from ...

... chewing them. In the Dunkirk area, while the B.E.F. were making their great stand against the Germans, the captain told Whitehouso to let them have it,” and he worked like a Trojan on that gun ” until told to blow it up. At Dunkirk 50 to 60 German aeroplanes ...

... FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940 FARMERS’ RED CROSS SALE MAY RAISE £2,500 “ Dunkirk Beaches” Sold for £€l,ooo B.E.F. SURVIVOR LANDS A BIG CATCH It was hoped to raise £l,OOO by the Red Cross sale organised by the Stratford-on-Avon branch of the National Farmers’ ...

... IT WAS NEWS TO HIM Trooper Thomas Kennedy, on leave after evacuation from Dunkirk, answered the knock at the doox of his home in Vernon Street, Belfast, yesterday and was handed a telegram. It was from the War Office saying that he was missing. Trooper ...

... in letters to her parents the B.E.F. evacuation from Dunkirk, tells of merciless bombing and machine-gunning by the Nazis of a British hospital ship in mid-Channel. On her sixth crossing to Dunkirk nine Nazi planes raked the ship’s deck and dropped salvos ...