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... BIRKENHEAD HERO OF DUNKIRK A young naval officer from Birkenhead, although mortally wounded o 2 Dunkirk by an enemy ’plane which was attacking his ship, continued firing at the enemy from the bridge until the ’plane was brought down. At his home port ...
... WALLASEY HERO OF DUNKIRK Among the men who have come back from Dunkirk is Petty Officer Thomas Wilcocks, aged 33, 22, Birch-grove, Wallasey, who was decorated with the Croix de Guerre for shooting down two enemy ’planes with a Bren gun during the evacuation ...
... DUNKIRK THANKSGIVING Staff Offerings to Honour the Brave •T The staffs of City Offices, Works, and Factories are asked to organise special whip-round collections at once for the Lord Mayor of Liverpool s War Fund in thanksgiving for the return of the ...
... for one two things extra as the result of the experience of two of officers and about eight of the men who got back from Dunkirk. I rang up the War Office for one very important item. Though it is not an authorised store they nave taken my word for it ...
... THEY WILL WANT A FULL LIFE The lads of Dunkirk and Narvik will not be satisfied with a promise of a land fit for heroes to live in,’ said Mr. Robert Burns, speaking at the Liverpool Boleader Club luncheon today. “ They will want the chance of a full life ...
... PONTING. Gunner Charles Ponting, aged 30, son of Mrs. M Ponting, of Greenside, Brunswick-road, Liverpool, has been lost in the Dunkirk withdrawal. He has been in th ...
... 000 pyjama suits, 30.000 dressing gowns and tens of thousands of slippers was necessitated by the return of the troops from Dunkirk, the Red Cross and St. John war organisation announced today. Recent fighting resulted in , great losses of Red Cross material ...
... Depot, Reading, from Princess Elizabeth for distribution to some of the British and B’rench troops who have returned from Dunkirk. Kirkby Hotel. —A final order for the opening of the Oherrv Tree Hotel, which has been erected at a cost of £12,000, was granted ...
... Liverpool’s appeal to the staffs of city offices, works, and factories to organise whip-round collections in thanksgiving for Dunkirk is already having beneficial results. The Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport Employees Social and Athletic Society ...
... fatherin-law and mother-in-law are. RECORD OF DUNKIRK HEROES Mr. C. R. Attlee stated in the House of Commons this afternoon that a record is being kept of all those regularly assisting in the evacuation of Dunkirk. It was not possible to keep a complete record ...
... were lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures were: British 11 ships (54,715 tons); Allied four ships (17,913 tons); Neutral three ships (7,923 tons). Total, 18 ships (80,551 tons). The losses at Dunkirk must be regarded as far ...
... —From the _ The good work of the Y.M.C.A. is appreciated the B.E.F. It was a remark of one the boys that returned safely from Dunkirk that prompted to make this collection the office. I enclose stamped entelope for acknowledgment Yours faithfully, Dear Sir ...