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... that struck answering chords in the hearts of the visitors. Large numbers of evacues have since returned. For instance, 25,000 evacues arrived in Northampton when evacuation began. Mid-August figures this year showed that less than one sixth of them remained ...
... Finsbury Rifles —and served with it and the 16th Battalion of the same regiment— Queen’s Westminster Rifles—in France and Flanders. He won the Military Cross his gallantry in action on the Western Front in 1918. Major Peter O. B. Sherwood. Bedfs and Herts ...
... Mrs. P. McGearthy, Ballivor, recently was Mr. Thomas Duffy, who fought with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders, and was evacuated at Dunkirk, in the ill-fated troopship, the Lancastria. When the ship went down, Mr. Duffy swam to one of the life ...
... his unit, and served with credit during the battle of Flanders, doing particularly fine work as a beach control officer at Dunkirk. He was on the beach for several days before being ordered to evacuate. He gained great popularity among all ranks, nnd was ...
... notepaper of a Brussels doctor. Lieut. Collett was in the Gloucestershire Regiment, and was last seen during the battle of Flanders. He went off in a truck with Corporal Hodges, also of the Gloucestershire Regiment, along a road where the enemy were known ...
... im• rtance to the local newspapers. we must have our shelters ready Aorta Champion said: Because and should not bring our evacu- these papers are a great power in ated children home just yet. we the land. They are for the most poa ., part ably conducted ...
... London life by night and day comprise only a minority of that great host of kiddies who were brought to the Duchv when the evacuation scheme was launched By the greater part of them remain with us and it is both heartening and encouraging to see how happily ...
... M.s. 7s. from H.M.S. Repulse and £55 from the Royal Naval Bai racks at Devonport. ENGLAND'S FLANDERS.— The Dockland area of London to-day is the Flanders of England, said Alderman Thomas, chairman of Glamorgan County Council, at yesterday, expressing ...
... Army. All are Old Warwickians. Corpl. Henry Norman Forbes, who is 34. is the Royal Engineers, and took part in the second evacuation from France. On leaving school he served as a booking clerk on the Great Western Railway at Warwick and at Bordesley, Birmingham ...
... to deal with them firmly effectively- All women are not heroines and some may have been difficult to persuade the matter evacuation for their children and so on but the majority of cases women have a fundamental common sense which is sure remedy for panic ...
... SIX DO Saturday, September 21, From the crowded city these children were evacuated to a residential school deep in the heart of the country in South-East England. Nothing is near the school; no building nor place which could by: any stretch of imagination ...
... James Kelly, of Neill’s Road, Bold, missing two months ago, is a prisoner of war. He was left behind wounded in the evacuation of Flanders. North-West Bombs Two Fatal Casualties Reported Although high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped in last ...