Refine Search

LANCASHIRE OFFICER A

... The M.C.*s were bestowed chiefly in connection with the courageous and gallant work of officers in the Flanders campaign and the Dunkirk evacuation. The Queen watched the ceremony, which took place in the inner quadrangle, from an open French window on ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 111 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOLIDAYS TO BK RESUMED BIG ARMS RESERVE AGAIN

... for days off. will be suggested to employers by bhe Ministry of Labour. Britain’s losses material suffered in the evacuations of Flanders and ranee have been made good. Employers not engaged on war work have taken advantage of the situation to cancel all ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 114 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GO TO IT

... was Michael H. Flanders, who prepared the book and produced and presented the ' show. He showed astonishing vivacity and versatility in Not os newsreel and in a one-man pantomime as diverting mimic of familiar characters, Flanders was also the villain ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 272 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ANDREWS LIVER SALT

... our people. The Government showed foresight, wisdom and commonsense in abrogating the formal vacation. After the evacuation from Flanders and the collapse of the French armies, it became essential to put every ounce of energy into the war effort—the ...

Published: Monday 05 August 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 545 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

(Continued from previous column)

... column) L.-Corpl. John Lee Warner, of The Queen’s Royal Regiment, the story of whose escape from a German prison camp in Flanders and subsequent exciting wanderings in hostile territory before reaching Spain and Portugal has been told this week, is now ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: Surrey Advertiser
County: Surrey, England
Type: | Words: 512 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A GLIMPSE AT THE NEW G.0.C.-in-C. NORTHERN COMMAND

... of months ago Sir Ronald Adam was in. charge one of our corps in Flanders, and took a brilliant part under Lord Gort in the series of battles which culminated in the Dunkirk evacuation, and in his promotion to his present job. Since that time there has ...

Published: Monday 05 August 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1455 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

EVERY VILLAGE IS NOW A FORT

... many of his divisions, which have been made up largely men who have beer, evacuated from Dunkirk, are equipped precisely as well as they were wheu fighting gallantly in Flanders and are 100 per cent, mobile. Some emergency defencea are thus longer required ...

COSMOS adopted before these services can take place and the clergy are time and again compelled to give advice on

... Worcester, and on the outbreak he joined up and saw fighting :n thi Flanders campaign from Louvain to Dunkirk. He was among the last troops to be taken from Dunk'rk on the last day of the evacuation. Corps Anniversary rpms week-end the Saville Street * Salvation ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 954 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MEMORABLE DAYS RECALLED

... for the “Courier” giving an account the doings of Company the days leading up to the evacuation Dunkirk. The article gives a graphic picture of events France and Flanders. We experienced more than one catch the throat when reading it. On May 10th were awakened ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1154 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Two SUNDAY MERCURY 4 August 1944 FROM ONE CENTURY’S WARS TO ANOTHER SQUADRON LEADER’S AWARD UP DAY AFTER SEA DRAMA

... destroyed at least two planes AT K IKK Acting Flight-Lieut John Ellis is another DFC on offensive over Dunkirk during the evacuation Twice while deputising for commanding officer he a four squadrons displaying initiative and destroying enemy planes Later ...

Published: Sunday 04 August 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1885 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WEEKLY NEWS AUGUST 2nd PACE THREE Lancashire Lad’s Experiences FAITH IN VICTORY UNDER BLACK SHADOW Brave ..

... through the last war and now prisoner of this in Germany was captured after that tragic surrender King For to walk from the Flanders front to inland prison camn Germany When a neutral correspondent interviewed him smiling and quite optimistic the outcome ...

BOOKS:

... to do acrobatic stunts on the niano. Yes he has a sense of humour, has Hermann. All those pitiful dead in Poland, Norway, Flanders, France, and the machine-gunned refugees, and the sunny, smashed towns and villages they must be a great joke. Miss Hurst ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2041 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review