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DUNKIRK SUNDAY

... DUNKIRK SUNDAY Services on Merseyside Sunday was set apart in the Archdiocese of Liverpool as the day on which thanksgiving should be made for the miracle of Dunkirk, and also the heroic dead should be remembered with prayers and Masses. At St. Patrick's ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EXPLOIT

... DUNKIRK EXPLOIT --\ ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Runcorn Weekly News
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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

COLNE SOLDIERS IN DUNKIRK EPIC A VERY HOT TBME

... COLNE SOLDIERS IN DUNKIRK EPIC VERY HOT «Mik part in tin* lighting preceding Ik* uitlulrawal from Dunkirk, and who ■\cr«* amongst ihoso brought hark to this imtry from tliat |M»rt in all km ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Barnoldswick & Earby Times
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 378 | Page: 9 | 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