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... Bruce Bairnsfather Blimey, are you still 'ere, mate Thought you was filled with concrete and sunk, to block up the 'arbour at Dunkirk (Answer censored) By Bruce Bairnsfather ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 33 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

REPORTED MISSING. Me learned this week that Lieut. H. Baker, R.A.M.C.. I nc several years hon. see of ..

... has been reported missing. Mr. A. E. Goddard, the present secretary, writes: Lieut. Baker was last seen on the beaches at Dunkirk, going back to get food for his men. Those who knew him LL ill appreciate his action. XL ilI his thoughts were or other ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 83 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DAILY MIRROR

... you can join him at Latimer House, Hanson-street, London, W., a Cadet Corps headquarters. Two of Robert's brothers were at Dunkirk. Two others are cadets with him. His father is an old soldier. That's Robert, on left. If the Germans come, what good would ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 88 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

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... 'lt was about 2.3 miles from Dunkirk that we found we should have to continue our journey on foot. It took us about Fight hours. because periodically we had to dive for shelter. It was just getting dusk as we got into Dunkirk and, despite the air menace ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 753 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

D.S.O. Surprise For Officer

... D.S.O. Surprise For Officer The King yesterday decorated officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation during a 60-mile tour of troops in the Southern Command. _ Three officers who received the D.S.O. were Lieut.-Col. Desmond Harrison. HE.; Lieut -Col. T. ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

plane maehlne-gunne marching through the c

... bridges were destroyed, and Chateau Thierry a huge explosion followed a direct hit on the railway junction. Oil tanks at Dunkirk w fire. At Flushing and Ostend other aircraft made low level attacks on the aerodromes, inflicting further damage. One of ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 136 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

WOUNDED SOLDIER, HIS WIFE AND LODGER

... WOUNDED SOLDIER, HIS WIFE AND LODGER I have kat a finger and an eye in France. I have only been home from Dunkirk for a fortnight. My life's a misery. Thus Albert George Millington, a 51- year-old labourer of St. Clement'ssquare, Islington answered ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LINERS AND LUXURY YACHTS BRING B.E.F. HOME

... LINERS AND LUXURY YACHTS BRING B.E.F. HOME By BERNARD GRAY Daily 11 mild Correspondent tilth the B.E.F. A SECOND epic of Dunkirk on a smaller scale has been completed with, so far as I can discover, not a single casualty. I was one of party of 60, the ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 143 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FRENCH SOLDIER BURIED

... FRENCH SOLDIER BURIED. The first French soldier to die in Britain from wounds received during the Dunkirk evacuation was buried with full military honours at St. Mary Cray Cemetery on Saturday. He was 35-yearold Marcel Paul M i lot. . . _ Draped in a ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THORNTON HEATH

... Provided irefreshments. THANKSGIVING SERVICES Special services of thanksgiving for the succeerful evacuation of our Army from Dunkirk were held at Downsview-road Methodist Church. Thornton Heath, on Sunday. The morning service was conducted by the Minister ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... declaea .Guild of Youth. Norbury, are serving With We ha ve Forces. Some of them were in the without petty evacuation of Dunkirk. All these lads are remembered by name in Eh. Philip's daily _ WORKING AN UNFIT HoßBE.—Willianx Intercessions at 11 am and ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Rifles Were Used To Fight Planes

... Soldiers lay on their backs, used their rifles as anti-aircraft guns, as Nazi warplanes flew overhead during the battle of Dunkirk. In the heat of fighting, one man found time to take this picture • .. • • - 1 . '4 v , , i• - s * re. ~ - .• , I of ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: 2 | Tags: none