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Heroes of Dunkirk

... Heroes of Dunkirk PHE King, who travelled to the west country yesterday to decorate officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, made sixty miles' tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went the King was impressed, he said, by the excellent ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES

... DUNKIRK HEROES THE QUEEN TALKS TO When the Queen informally visited the Overseas Club, London, yesterday, a number of New Zealand and Canadian airmen, Newfoundland troops, South African sailors, and nurses from overseas, including some Australian nurses ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CIVILIANS KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... CIVILIANS KILLED AT DUNKIRK Sir Adrian Baillie in the House of Commons yesterday asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of civilians killed and wounded in aiding Royal Navy to remove men of the B.E.F. and French Army from Dunkirk. Sir V. Warrender ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUICIDE SHIPS AT ST VALERY

... boat. TOYS TO FIGHT TANKS It was bloody murder, this volunteer said. The miracle of Dunkirk was not to repeated. St Valery has high cliffs, not a beach like Dunkirk. There was a heavy fog. the sea was rough, and the Germans were ready for us this time ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NORTH-EAST ITEMS

... to the reception of evacuee children. * * * Portsoy soldiers and sailors who were recently in action in Belgium and in the Dunkirk area and were home on leave were entertained at a supper and dance by friends irt the town. Provost M'Lean presided. * * * ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEW B.E.F. EMBARK TO STRAINS OF BAGPIPES

... were units from all parts of the country— from Orkney to the Home Counties. Thousands of them stood shoulder to back from Dunkirk have really had only a day's leave since they got back to be reclothed and re-equipped, have a rest and a clean and join the ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 776 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

British Prayers For France

... and the unequal forces of our gallant Allies aided by the British. Our prayers have been answered in marvellous ways at Dunkirk. Not alone on tanks and on battleships and airborne forces but on God depends the victory. To Him we must turn with renewal ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GERMAN VIEW OF PLANS TO INVADE BRITAIN

... learned this last few weeks that the German engineers and pioneers are very ingenious people, and we know from what happened at Dunkirk that small boats can be put to very effective use, but it is one thing getting away from open beaches to safety and quite ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1169 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Queen Broadcasts To France

... all free peoples of the world. COURAGE OF WOUNDED A few days ago I was visiting in our hospitals the French wounded from Dunkirk. To each of them I spoke in French and asked how they were getting on. All of them, even the most seriously wounded, answered ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 549 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Casualties Among Men Of North-East

... . eei his battalion in Joine d The division Part was through y , for med Belgium, finall-5 Vy in drawal An?S ng lhe w th Dunkirk. Allied armies on Pr?v?te V° l Mr and Mrs P J J jSS°P' eldest son of Northern Road, Aberdeen \ 132 Great Pt2 th the f has ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 540 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BIGGEST RAID YET ON BRITAIN: NAZIS LOSE 3 PLANES

... Incendiary bombs penetrated roofs of houses in a working-class district of one North-east of England town, but soldier there with Dunkirk experience declared, This is nothing. Damage was not extensive. HOUSES DEMOLISHED The bomb which killed Mrs and Miss Ramsbottom ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 611 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

D.S.O. FOR CAMERONS COL ONEL

... in the preparation and firing of demolitions on many river lines contributed greatly to the success of the withdrawal to Dunkirk. The Military Cross has been awarded to Captain Herbert Pickard, Royal Signals. for his signalling arrangements, which enabled ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 795 | Page: 6 | Tags: none