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... DUNKIRK HERO Chatham House Boy Loses His Life _ A former scholar at Chatham House School, Victor Lionel Munro, younger son of Mrs. T. L. Webb, of Chapelplace, JUimsgate, was among those who sacr.ficed their lives in the heroic rearguard action at Dunkirk ...
... The enemy sent over hordes of bombers. They made Dunkirk docks a shambles. •• The whole place was on fire, and the heat was great that no troops could come down to the docks. The only part of Dunkirk harbour where ship could go alongside was a narrow ...
... THE COST IN SHIPPING Shipping to the total of 24.000 tons was lost during the combined operations off Dunkirk. Pointing out that the Dunkirk figures are not mercantile losses in the ordinary sense, the Admiralty state that they must regarded far less ...
... FRIDAY, 14th JUNE, 1940 ESCAPED FROM DUNKIRK DROWNED IN DERBYSHIRE A 21-year-old Ramsgate man, who was safaly evacuated fram Dunkirk, has mat death in Derbyshire. He was L/Bdr. Charles Sidney Pointer, only son of Mrs. Gillett ami the late Mr. E. H. Pointer ...
... roared overhead all the time they were there and fires outlined the remaining buildings of Dunkirk against the night sky. Another member of the crew said saw Dunkirk Hospital bombed. was like something from a horror film,” he said. Many Margate rowing boats ...
... HOW CALM SEA HELPED The miracle the Dunkirk withdrawal—for it was less than miracle in its completeness—wag something for which, week previously, haruly one student of war this country had dared to hope, writes H. C. Ferraby, naval correspondent, in the ...
... y fine ship handling and the amazing endurance the men engaged. Many of the 6ma craft which disappeared into the haze of Dunkirk will largely go unthanked because do not really know who they were. One of the best jobs done,” added Vice Admiral Ramsay ...
... NOT COME BACK Trawler Crews Answer the Call Tlu* few vessels of the trawler Meet remaining at the port played gallant part Dunkirk. Local fishermen, true to their traditions, again braved the risk of being blown out existence and for 24 hours they took ...
... e Factor. Two obvious reasons for the plan were, firstly, the shallowness the channels and the long, sloping beaches off Dunkirk, and secondly, the need, for craft which offered only small, quickly-moving targets to the bomber aud the machine-gunner. ...
... Honours at Margate Six Prendi soldiers, three British soldiers and two sailors, who Save their lives in the evacuation of Dunkirk, were buried with full military honours Margate Cemetery. Thousands of people lined tne route as the cortege, headed pipe ...
... LONELY EELBIAN BOY 14-year-old Belgian boy who escaped from Dunkirk with party French troops was among those landed at south-east coast port. He had no news of his mother, who had been arrested, of his father, a commandant serving with the Belgian Army ...
... PART IN EPIC STORY The splendid part played by Ramsgate and Margate in the safe landing of British and French troops from Dunkirk will ever remain a cherished memory in the Thanet towns, which added yet another glorious page to their war-time history. ...