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A Confident Army. Second Yw-'V*cry Different

... through the eight months’ lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand acocount of itself in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break-through on the other flank at Sedan, it fought ...

GHASTLY SURPRISE IS AWAITING THE INVADER

... The battalion was among the last to evacuate Dunkirk, and in the delaying rearguard fighting it was engaged in the losses were again considerable —twenty-six officers and 450 men. From the grim sands of Flanders the survivors came eventually to a certain ...

Published: Monday 02 September 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1116 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONFIDENT ARMY

... through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand account of itaelf in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break through on the other flank at Sedan, it fought ...