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LIFEBOAT HEROES OF DUNKIRK

... LIFEBOAT HEROES OF DUNKIRK The members of the Ramsgate Lifeboat crew who saved nearly 3,000 soldiers at Dunkirk were Coxswain Howard Knight, acting Second Coxswain Alfred Moody, Mot ,, r Mechanic E. Attwood, Assist. Motor Meth. T. 11. Read, Char.es Knight ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DROWNED

... 19 year old eon of Mr. and Mrs. W. Penn. of 89. Prostedge A‘enne. Ramsgate. was drowned while helping the troops aboard at Dunkirk. His brother John. a stoker in the Navy. was washed overboard and drowned in February. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SAL AN only good thick ones. 27 44101. ac ceptable; also 40 gallon klarreis.—Frank Coopers, Lituesorks. ..

... klarreis.—Frank Coopers, Lituesorks. Canterbury, and Victoria 'toad. Ashford. SAW required. paraffin engine preferred.— Gloser. Dunkirk. t'Auterbia%. WANTED. Portable Boiler . — Sole, Baakinge Farm. Stodmarsh. STEEL Scalfoldmg Wanted.- (bars, 14.16. ,wk. , pur ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 50 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S FUNERAL

... JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S FUNERAL L,Cpl. E. Lincoln, who was evacuated from Dunkirk with the B.E.F. arrived home in Herne Bay, on Saturday half an hour hetore the funeral of his mother, of whose death he was unaware, took place. Mrs. M. C. Lincoln, of ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE TOLL OF WAR iaLLED AND WOUNDED KENT HEROES

... Ravenscourt-road, Deal, . notified that her only son, Pte. lames Weall, aged 23. a bomb during the withdrawal of i..l'. to Dunkirk. He had served in • • I!rny for eight years, four of which pant in Egypt. and had been with t . since February. Class Stoker ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 893 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MAIDSTONE GUNNER WINS D.F.M

... and Mrs. F. J. Smith. of 5, Foster (lark Estate, Maidstone, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for work at the Dunkirk evacuation. He played an important part in an action between our bombers and enemy fighters and shot down a Messerschinitt ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 172 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

B.E.F. WOUNDED SEE ASHFORD GC. BEAT ARMY XI. MEN FROM FRANCE AND BELGIUM

... of these, a veteran of the Great War. Sgt.-Maj. W. 11. Cligton, of the Royal Warwickshires, experienced the nightmare of Dunkirk beach. He told a tale ot hardship 'that was typical of what much of the B.E.F. went through lie was in the zone near Arras ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 514 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MONEY WILL WIN

... better able to stand the strain of war and hardships we shall be called upon to endure. The epic story of the evacuation of Dunkirk, the bravery and heroism of the Royal Na‘y. the Army and the Royal Air Force, should in-pore every man and woman to do cheerfully ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW SALVATION ARMY APPOINTMENT

... of Canterbury, and Major Goodeve (Maidstone), who made reference to special visitation of the wounded brought over from Dunkirk recently. Ile spoke of the testimony of one lad whose mother wrote on his behalf—God 3.4 with us! and brought about our d ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

the Chatham tuagistiates on Muuday, r.tueat ul applied to hate the ulr quaillicaiiim troth imposed tuat court ..

... heard that he has been taken prisoner. Mrs. WlWaleson had previously Lean' that her husband hail been seen on the beach at Dunkirk. but /4everal day. elapsed before she knew he was a prisoner. DREW LOTS It appear: that and other R.A.M.C. personnel drew ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 332 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NEWS IN BRIEF

... took pert in tile evacuation of the 8.F..F. from Dunkirk, the motor pleasnre boats Eastbourne Queen and Enchantress and the fishing boat Commodore were lost. The Eastbourne lifeboat was lost at Dunkirk, bnt is stated to hare been picked up. She is damaged ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 1566 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AS I PASSED THROUGH KENT

... aerie& swat — FRI WOO& A week previously I had seen our ports clammed with every sort of craft bringing the B.E.F. over from Dunkirk. This day ali was quiet and only the usual craft weie there. On a promenade a young Scottish soldier told me some of his ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Kentish Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 626 | Page: 5 | Tags: none