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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... his wife to come home on leave shortly. He served in France from January until the evacuation from Dunkirk. He participated in much of the heaviest fighting in Flanders. Aged thirty years. Staff-Sergt. Gifford had numerous friends in the Trowbridge district ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... expression used We hope he will attempt invasion ! Empire soldiers who missed the Flanders campaign are as madly r’arin’ to go as are the British soldiers who were in the Flanders campaign and who are eager reequipped and more evenly-armed with the enemy to ...
... 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 ...
... trying to for months SERGEANT P NASH GRENADIER GUARDSMAN with Lance-Corpl Harry Nicholls on the occasion the VC before the evacuation from Dunkirk with Nicholls’ brother Private H Nicholls for the benefit of visiting pressmen Bomber Command’s THEY LAY MINES ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...