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... enemy aircraft two oU ATTACKED NINE Pilot Officer P. \V. Peters. Dunkirk he was pilot an air which, with two others, was atta • nine Messerschmitt He turned to the at Two Messcrschm ash. and two more appeared sen ously damaged. Pilot Officer R. J. Jouault ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MODEST HEROES CONFESS

... two unknown heroes of Dunkirk. It told of a wounded soldier, Private Wilfrid Kirby, who was carried along bomb-torn roads for four days and nights by two comrades. After handing him over to a medical unit on the beach of Dunkirk, they vanished. Today ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 108 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

very great ;ot an Air he

... superior In quality I and in many types of macm we have met far in the battles which both in me umerous fierce a lavft fnneh Dunkirk In France, ■where were at a considerable disadvanlag Lesson many machines on aerodromes were a ecus omed to rss of two to ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A MIRACLE

... 27. our lorries arrived at a village about 20 miles out of Dunkirk. We had already destroyed our guns and here we were ordered to ditch our lorries and make our way as best we could to Dunkirk on foot. We set off straight away, the glow of the biasing ...

HOME FROM FLANDERS

... HOME FROM FLANDERS They were rotten shots'• commented 2nd I. 4 eut, Harold Stephens on his return last week from Dunkirk where for many hours h 2 had been under enemy gun and shell tire. 2nd Lleut. Stephens who resides at Harvard-road. Ch . swick. was ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 156 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

STORIES

... they approached Dunkirk, much of their equipment gone, they cut holes in their bread, and mired soup into them in order to drink it_ Everywherethey were passing the bodies of refugees, men. women and children along the roads. Dunkirk was a frightful picture ...

HOME FROM FLANDERS

... during his few days leave, the hell that was Dunkirk. Always fond of football, played on several occasions for the Blue Star P.C. Brentford, and it was as member of this team that he last -visited Dunkirk. His brother, now a member the Heston and Isieworth ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Marylebone Mercury
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 370 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Turn to Back Page. Col Four Inside News

... Inside News Still more Nazi reserves (by Page Vernon Bartlett) . . 2 Spanish Occupy Tangier 2 R.A.F. awards for gallantry at Dunkirk SPord•up in military training S ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 34 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Earl Of Cavan's Heir Missing

... heirpresumptive of the Earl of Cavan. missing believed killed, while commanding H.M.S. Grive, sunk during the evacuation of Dunkirk. Fterd-Marshal the Earl of Cavan was chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1922 10 1926. Captain Lambart. who was M. sened ...

Published: Sunday 16 June 1940
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 68 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CAMPAIGN GOES

... ever, among: the Tories, of the new kind of Diehardism. While officers who havi always been Conservatives re turned from Dunkirk by th' hundred bitterly critical o Ministers who had let then down—their incensed are being repeated rlgh the country back ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 65 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

STEP TO CABINET

... Ridley was chairman of the Ealing Labour Party. REFUSED TO LEAVE DUNKIRK Chaplain Who Stayed With Wounded And Dying Although he had received a pass to leave by the last boat from Dunkirk, Dom Gervase Hobson-Matthews, 05.8.. art Army chaplain from Ealing ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 262 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ISLINGTON SOLDIER'S DRAMATIC STORY

... SKIES, BABIES STARVING IN THEIR HUNGRY MOTHERS' ARMS, A DERELICT CAFE AN ARMY LORRY, A CHEERY B.E.F. MAN ON THE WAY TO DUNKIRK VERY HUNGRY COMPASSION FOR THE NEEDS OF THE WOMEN .. • NARROW ESCAPES, RESCUE, HOME AND FRIENDSHIP A DRAMATIC REUNION ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 1 | Tags: none