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DUNKIRK PILOTS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK PILOTS DECORATED SQUADRON-LEADER PHILIP A. HUNTER, who led a formation which shot down 38 enemy planes in two patrols, was awarded the D.S.O. to-day. The award of 10 D F.C.s and 11 D.F.M.s —manv for heroism during the Dunkirk evacuation was also ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 629 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHEERED WAITING TROOPS AT DUNKIRK

... CHEERED WAITING TROOPS AT DUNKIRK Nearly £2OO was received for the Lord Mayor of Liverpool’s War Fund in a few hours on Thursday. A thanksgiving collection by the captain, officers, and men of the s.s. Stratford made £ll, ear-marked for the Liverpool ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The Epic of Dunkirk | TR – SAPPER HALL KILLED IN EVACUTION,

... The Epic of Dunkirk | TR - SAPPER HALL KILLED IN EVACUTION, sapper Frederick Leslie Hall, who formerly resided m the distriet, wae killed by a bomb whila assisting in the erection of bridges used for the purpose of helping in the c¢vacuation of the troops ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CLEVELEYS SOLDIER IN DUNKIRK EPIC Over Battlefields on Which Father Fought Shrapnel shells were raining on the ..

... CLEVELEYS SOLDIER IN DUNKIRK EPIC Over Battlefields on Which Father Fought Shrapnel shells were raining on the beach and we were machine-gunned from the air and the land. A piece of shrapnel was stopped by the arm of my spectacles. We waded into the ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Fleetwood Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 56 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GAS THE KING DECORATES DUNKIRK HEROES The King, to-day, decorated officer heroes the Ounkiik evacuation during ..

... GAS THE KING DECORATES DUNKIRK HEROES The King, to-day, decorated officer heroes the Ounkiik evacuation during a 60-mile tour of a division of troops in the southern command. Three officers who received the D.S.O were Lieutenant Colonel Desmond Harrison ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 913 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SOUTH AFRICA

... attack was made by 24 bombers off Dunkirk. The recipient of the honour is Mr. Eric Banner, of Mayfield Terrace, Cook-street, Rochdale. Mr. Banner was taking part in the last phase of the heroic withdrawal from Dunkirk. His boat was one of hundreds of ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 277 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS SALES

... treadle or power drive: nrly.ucw: cost £5O, acc.£ls.-E167 STOP PRESS BLAcWriars 2345 THREE D.S.O.s FOR DUNKIRK OFFICERS King conferred D.S.O. on three Dunkirk evacuation heroes: Lieutenantcolonel Desmond Harrison (Royal Engineers). Lieutenant-colonel T. F. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 133 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

PRINCESS ELIZABETH’S GIFT

... Depot, Reading, from Princess Elizabeth for distribution to some of the British and French troops who have returned from Dunkirk, ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 39 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Italian Bases Bombed

... overboard when chased by a French warship. (Press Association War Special and British United Press messages.) Carried Violin in Dunkirk Retreat From Our Ashton Correspondent When Driver Edwin Taylor, R.A.S.C., of Rowsley-strcet, Beswick, Manchester, went to ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 201 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH SONGS

... the aha get bask Dunkirk. I rang War Though it is not an authorised store, they have taken word for it that it is necessary. GOOD SHOW NOFK The use of light anti-aircraft mobile warfare something new. But have the lesson of Dunkirk passed on to us and ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 318 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FIRST-CLASS GEAR

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 427 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COMING OF AGE

... their son, JOHN ALAN, now in England with the B.E.F. Also our sincere Thanhs to all those who helped the evacuation from Dunkirk. Avonlea, Wythenshawe Bead. Baguley, ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 9 | Tags: none