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... Would Not Take Boat to Dunkirk THE coxswain and motor mechanic of the Hythe lifeboat, who did not obey a request by the naval authorities Dover to assist in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, have been dismissed from the lifeboat service. A report ...
... 24. Information was received on June 4 that he was missing, but subsequent information proved he was killed in action off Dunkirk. Before the outbreak of hostilities he was a member of the Auxiliary Air Force and was the eldest of the three sons of Mr ...
... was recalled to the army last August. Killed at Dunkirk News has been received at his home in Owen-street, Hulme, Manchester, that Corporal John Dixon was killed in action during the retreat on Dunkirk. Corporal Dixon, who had served more than seven years ...
... son since May 23, and he understood that he was last seen at Dunkirk Mr. Butler is 23. Last seen on the steamer Gracie Fields, which was bombed and sunk while transporting B.E.F. men from Dunkirk, Sergeant Edward Pridham, of Mount-street, Ashton, has been ...
... Lymml.—s93, Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy. WYCHE.—WILLIAM JOHN DRAY, killed in action May, 1940, homeward bound from Dunkirk, aged 21. True was his heart, his friendship sound, loved and respected by *ll around: beautiful life came an early end. He ...
... was killed war service. , In our sorrow remember with pride That he died for England.” ECCLES.—HAROLD STANLEY, killed at Dunkirk May. 1940. aged 21 years, seaman gunner. Prom MOLLY and Mrs. NEWTON. 77, Hendham Vale, Queen’s Park, M/c. 1914-1918 CKIGHTON ...
... of the Hythe lifeboat crew for 38 years. He was said at the time to have declared to an interviewer he declined to go to Dunkirk because he was asked to drive the boat on the sands. I will defend my own shore with the next man, but here I had to use my ...
... stew and cabbage again nobody grumbles. I think of others of the family living on Army food —or those fellows who evacuated Dunkirk on dry biscuits —and am thankful. If a quarrel begins I, w^°, j chief rebel, have been kno* 1 , past weeks to become peacenj^ ...
... murder. Gabrielle Kampen, 24-yearold daughter of a Belgian innkeeper, was known to many English soldiers who escaped from Dunkirk. Though the Germans were speeding towards La Panne after occupying Ostend she continued to bandage wounded British soldiers ...