... competitions, including the Pyke Cup. His father was killed in the Great War and his younger brother was in the Dunkirk evacuation. Captain Douglas Stokes, -Royal Artillery, of Wrexham, son-in-law of Aiderman Herbert Hampson, an ex-Mayor of Wrexham, who ...

... Committee to release ships for European children, the American Committee for the Evacuation of Children states that the decision of the British Government to postpone their evacuation scheme is loyally accepted. Only a few thousand children under individual ...

... defences of the country. They played a creditable part in the recent operation in Flanders and France. They formed part of the rearguard which defended Boulogne during the evacuation, and also took part in the defence of Dunkirk. DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF FRENCH ARMAMENTS ...

... any hour may become the greatest battlefield in history. These people, most of them men whose wives and children have been evacuated, plus old folk who will never leave the land, live their regular lives while around them fortifications widen and solidify ...

... shelling by some new Big Bertha, together with the magnificent resistance put up by the Allied garrison before the great evacuation, has brought to mind once again the name of a town that is famous in our history. Long before the discovery of the New World ...

... James Garner, R.N.V.R., aged 28, of 89 Bective Street, Wavertree, is now reported to have lost his life in the Dunkirk evacuation. He was called up last September, and was appointed to trawler flotilla. He was married, and there is a daughter six months ...