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MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK. God's hand was in the deliverance at Dunkirk. Why at a time when we chiefly expected ruffled waters and storms was the sea so calm day after day and night after night that even small river boats crossed the Channel and brought back ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Bromley & West Kent Mercury
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 10 | 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

TATTERED AND TORN,

... Stories SAILOR FATHER AND SOLDIER SON IN RESCUE SCENES TATTERED AND TORN AND WITHOUT UNDERCLOTHING. DRUMMER YOWLS, BACK FROM DUNKIRK, DID NOT WAIT TO GET A CHANGE OF UNIFORM. HE HAD BEEN IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHTING. HE KNEW THAT IN HIS HOME AT HORNSEY ROAD ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUPERNATURAL INTERVENTION

... been crested In Lilington over the story vie published last week about the pomade appearance of an angel on the beaches of Dunkirk. Some people are openly sceptical, goalie say it might have happened, others say that it did happen, as they had heard the ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Holloway Press
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Talk Peace

... Poland, former member of Council of State ; Admiral LELUC, Chief of Staff to Admiral Darlan; Admiral ABRIAL, hero of the Dunkirk evacua• tion ; General BERGERET, one of France's younger soldie rs, an air specialist. ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Days of Horror Starving On Wreck, They Were Saved

... Starving On Wreck, They Were Saved HAVING Lived without food and water for nine days on a wreck sunk in shallow water near Dunkirk nine French soldiers, rescued by a British fast motor boat, have reached this country There were 20 ot them originally. but ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The saloon bar

... to ins triends bs • Inner-bombardier, also has returned ire mid sound trunk Dunkirk to ins nome in Fulham. Attached to an autt-aircraft seetloll, he remained at Dunkirk with hie comrades until r ractocath all the troop, Mel been evacuated. Their job ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Fulham Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1482 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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