... HALL THANKSGIVING SERVICE On Sunday evening at the Champness Hall the Rev. J. E. Eagles gave an address on “The miracle of Dunkirk.” The congregation was good. ...

... and Private L. Reynolds. It is understood that when last seen they were in the water together making for the boats off the Dunkirk beach, but, although they were both good swimmers, they did not answer the roll-call later, and it is feared they may have ...

... Private W. Cragg As a result of his experiences in having to swim to the boats at Dunkirk under bombing and machine gun fire, Private W. Cragg of the East Lancashire Regiment now receiving treatment in hospital for sickness. He is the son of Mrs. Cragg ...

... anxious as any town in the country to show its pride and gratitude to the men of the B.E.F. who have been evacuated from Dunkirk. Many of these men got away with only the clothing they were wearing. All the little things so essential to everyday life ...

... Rochdale Men in Flanders Battle Notification has been received during the week of further local casualties in the battle of Dunkirk News of those named below has been communicated by relatives to the Observer.” ...

... British Expeditionary Force, and 30,000 men killed or prisoners. It is as well to know’ these things lest the superb epic of Dunkirk should blind us to the fact that the army which came back was _a defeated army —though, happily, it was still an army. As ...

... Commons Mr. Churchill spoke of the miracle of the deliverance of 335,000 British and French troops from the jaws of death Dunkirk. Our losses in men, he told the House, exceeded in killed, wounded and missing, in the series of battles fought on three fronts ...

... parcels to the East Lancashire County Area Social Welfare Committee at Blackfriars House, Manchester, for the use of the Dunkirk 8.E.F., who are being equipped as they pass through the area. This contained the following articles; socks, 184 pairs; towels ...

... Rochdale Air Raid Wardens’ Organisation for gifts of articles with which to help to refit the men of the B.E.F. evacuated from Dunkirk. Socks, handkerchiefs, razors, razor blades, toilet soap, washing soap, shaving soap, tooth brushes, towels and cigarettes ...

... comparison between the annual cost to the Corporation of this increase—£so—and the £36 Bs. a year paid to soldiers just back from Dunkirk. Some argument took place to what actually was the recommendation of the Municipal Corporations Association and eventually ...

... feeling on this and allied matters. These fine young fellows who have been home on leave were practically all heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation miracle; they had come unscathed out the most difficult military operation ever achieved, but they had lost all ...