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... DUNKIRK “BAPTISM” The Squadron Leader was the officer who flew a training aircraft to Calais to rescue a Squadron Commander who had been shot down but was uninjured. It was while he was taking off after the rescue that he was attacked by 12 Messerschmitts ...
... DUNKIRK GALLANTRY AWARDS 688 Names Given in Latest list Six hundred and eighty-eight names , ranging from Vice-Admirals to deck-hands , were announced in a London Gazette list last night of honours and awards for the Dunkirk withdrawal . The awards were ...
... GUARDS' BRAVERY Brigade ' s Stand on Road to Dunkirk GALLANT WITHDRAWAL [ By Douglas Williams , who was our War Correspondent with the B . E . F . ] In the operation of the evacuation of the B . E . F . from the Dunkirk beaches there were two key positions in ...
... R . S . FUSILIERS Successful Action Covering Dunkirk IN TTOHT CORNER MR ERNEST BROWN Highlands MR CHAMBERLAIN Short Holiday Before Resuming Wnrlr Some of the trials of the gunnery troops may be gathered from the following account of the action at Wytschaete ...
... NAVAL AWARDS Saved Soldiers at Dunkirk D . S . M . FOR ABLE SEAMAN LONDON WAREHOUSE FIRE 'Plane Watches for Nazi Raiders ITALIAN MUNITIONS WORKS EXPLOSION 39 Killed and 500 Injured An able seaman who saved the lives of several soldiers buried in the debris ...
... Sale FATAL WASP STING Aberdeenshire Woman Collapses Unconscious and Dies on Fifth Day WILLS AND ESTATES Officer Killed at Dunkirk Greenock Sheriff-Substitute J . Dean Leslie , during the hearing of a case at Stirling yesterday , upheld the attitude adopted ...
... No Hero As a soldier limped on to a ’bus a woman exclaimed sympathetically : “Poor man, he must have been at Dunkirk ! Soldier : “ Dunkirk, my eye! [l've jist jined up, and it’s ma new buits!” St Giles ...
... GOLFING TOPICS RUMOUR AND ST ANDREWS Putter on Wheels Football CLYDE APPLICATION REFUSED r cO G DUNKIRK EPIC Lone Gun Wipes Out 5 Tanks [ BY OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ] If anyone doubts the need for the Government ' s repeated warnings against accepting ...
... refused to take a lifeboat to Dunkirk promptly answered a call to duty this morning. When a British bomber came down into the Channel Mr H. Griggs, former coxswain of the Hythe lifeboat, which was lost during the Dunkirk evacuation, at once put out in ...
... course of the war, there is much room for encouragement. It rests mainly on the proved courage of our men. For weeks after Dunkirk we were fighting with one hand tied behind our backs. The pick of our Army had to be refitted. The British Expeditionary Force ...
... ills llirfit ami on many occasions Die squadron , in nuniProus MiiTfssful eiiKfiReniPnt' ; against , ( he enemy . Dunns ; he Dunkirk operations he shot down three enemy aircraft and assisted in destroying a further three . In June 1940 , during a night attack ...
... damaged ship back to an English port 68 S DUNKIRK AWARDS SIX hundred and eighty-eight names , ranging from Vice-Admirals to deckhands were announced in a London Gazette list last night of honours and awards for the Dunkirk withdrawal This is the second list—a ...