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Dunkirk Triumph

... Dunkirk Triumph Then came the great German attack in Flanders and Northern France. Instead of being able to turn our heavy bombers on to their proper task of smashing up German aircraft factories, all our air strength had to be concentrated on a frantic ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GALLANTRY AT DUNKIRK ; Fisherman and Cook Awarded d . s . m . ' ' ;; ' '

... GALLANTRY AT DUNKIRK ; Fisherman and Cook Awarded d . s . m . ' ' ;; ' ' : , ' Fred Barter , a fisherman , of . Emswbrth , Hants , and Frank Lunn , of Fareham , have been awarded the D . S . M . for 'their services during the evacuation from Dunkirk . When ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 778 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

The Marquess , of Normanby News has been received by the Dowager Marchioness of Normanby , states a Whitby ..

... Marquess of Normariby , is safe . He was ; last reported to '' - have been ' seen in . a ' casualty clearing station near Dunkirk . . > -: ; - ' ; Sabotage by Nationalists , in Pin-Prick Campaign Against Smuts [ FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ] . Capetown ...

Published: Tuesday 10 September 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2689 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POINTS FROM LETTERS

... safe from Dunkirk. After 48 hours’ leave he was sent to En(gtland, where he has been ever since. hers who have been no farther than the outskirts of Edinburgh are home every week-end. Send them to guard the coast and let the heroes of Dunkirk get a rest ...

Published: Thursday 26 September 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOOD EXPORT BAN IN

... metals ,- . RED CROSS AND DUNKIRK EVACUATION £ 30 , 000 Spent on Tending the Sick and Wounded An interesting sidelight on the extent of the demands on Red Cross funds is the revelation that during the few ., days of the Dunkirk evacuation the Red Cross ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

POLES ON THE JOB

... plane went out after only three minutes. The other places bombed durm(f Saturday night were the ports of Ostend, Flushing, Dunkirk, Calais, and Boulogne, the Supglly depots at Osnabruck, Mannheim, Aachen, Hamm, Krefeld, and Brussels, and rail communications ...

Published: Monday 16 September 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 261 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DESTROYER GOT SIX U-BOATS

... attacked several submarines, and it is understood that she accounted for some, probably six. She also took part in the epic of Dunkirk. I learn that the Canadian Naval authorities are delighted with the condition of the American destroyers transferred to Britain ...

Published: Monday 09 September 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE HOME GUARD

... in France , including the Dunkirk evacuation , Major-General Eastwood served with distinction as Major-General , General Staff , under Lord Gort , and immediately under General Pownall . whom he now succeeds . Since the Dunkirk evacuation he has commanded ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INVADERS MAY LAND—WILL NEVER GET BACK

... “So long as that endures,” he concluded, “so long will it be impossible for Hitler's hordes to do what our geople did at Dunkirk. They may land ere, but they will never get home again.” ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HITLER' S SARCASM Hitler's speech last night was not one of his standard performances . He did not rant or

... presented at Dunkirk . As if a comparatively small British Army , deserted by its Belgian Allies , had any alternative to retreat before an enemy immensely superior in numbers . It has never been claimed , as Hitler alleges , that Dunkirk was a British ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 708 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PALACE ESCAPE SUGGESTED DAY OF NATIONAL THANKSGIVING

... another symbol of the British Constitution—the Holy Bible. The deliverance of our troops from the jaws of the German dragon at Dunkirk had followed the previous call for a day of national prayer. ...

Published: Monday 16 September 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Other Gifts

... Duke of Wellington ' s Regiment , comes £ 6 15 s , with 'this note , • A debt of gratitude , not only- for now , but for Dunkirk . ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 5 | Tags: none