... Mother's Birthday Gift From Flanders ABIRTHDAY present sent off by her soldier son in Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. A. Greig, of Bonnygate, Coupar Angus. The parcel, battered and torn, was found by Private A ...

... MATES PAID SOLDIER'S RENT DEBT VI A DUNKIRK soldier's home, where his wife and their nine children under 12 are living, has been saved by his battery of the Royal Artillery subscribing £7 towards his rent arrears. At Edmonton County Court yesterday Captain ...

... Abrial Reported To Be Captured Admiral Absial, who was decorated by our King for his action in the Dunkirk battle, is said to have been captured by the Germans. One must expect a great rush to jump on the Nazi band waggon. General Franco's demand for ...

... Our Wonderful Postmen A soldier who returned to his camp yesterday after evacuation from Dunkirk and a few days' leave, found 30 letters awaiting him. Most were from his sweetheart. All had been to France or Belgium. The first was dated May 8, two days ...

... PENNILESS SOLDIERS No mobik free canteen has been allowed on the station since the Dunkirk evacuation, and now the men, often tired must walk two or three hundred yards to the Y.M.C.A. canteen or pay 3d. at the public trolley for their tea or cakes. Many ...

... two or three, but our pilots outmanoeuvred them and inflicted heavy ! damage. It was added: In a single day during the Dunkirk evacuation, pilots of this Spitfire squadron shot down ten German fighters and an enemy army co-operation aircraft, aml damaged ...

... years. MC C. have invited Army units to use the nets at Lord's for recreational training. ar.d men recently evacuated from Dunkirk were among those who took advantage of UN offer yesterday Sunday. June 30 (2.30) British Empire cricket eleven meet Woodford ...

... Calais defenders who held up the German advance for four days and enabled the British Expeditionary Force to get away from Dunkirk was Brigadier Claude Nicholson. In the final action the Brigadier was taken prisoner with many of his men. General Sir Hubert ...

... Service Fund Name (and Title) , The Y.111.C.A. has served the troops in Flanders, on the quay at Boulogne, on the beaches at Dunkirk—through Normandy to Brittany it has been with the B.E.F. during these last weeks. Y.111.C.A. workers have met the returning ...

... longer; both limb— news of Lieut. Xor on artistic grounds. Capt. Y. missing in and because of historical prob- the retreat to Dunkirk. ability. A civilian variant, no less pathetic, has bagun to appear: * • Mrs, P— S— last heard of, TODAY'S most apposite Hotel ...

... bread and butter ) is completed, while we wait. Then over a drink Mr. S. calmly changes to another subject—a fragment of the Dunkirk epic—telling us' how his son got home. _ .. .. .., .. A . 0 .,„-- . .Y 4. . !Le_ I A ri -____ l e , .. , 4 ...

... French delegates—General Runtainger, of the French War Council: M. Leon Noel, Ambassador'o Poland ; Admiral Abrial. hero at Dunkirk: Admiral Leine and General Bergeret—trooped The spot in the forest of Compiigne where the 1918 armistice was signed. Seen ...