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... fighting in France and Flanders well within remembrance, and we know how. in conformance with the general plan after the German breakthrough, the British retreated steadily and five-sixths of the troops were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk by a miracle ...
... cabaret at Le Meurice. SCHOOLBOY DRAMATICS: First to amuse themselves and then to help a good cause boys of Westminster School evacuated to Devon got up a revue called Go To It, which proved so popular that it was given at the Rudolph Steiner Hall, in aid of ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... all through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than had Iteen promised. gave grand account of itself in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break through on the other Hank at Sedan, it fought ...
... through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand account 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 ...
... could hardly let this week pass without some comment on the appalling slaughter of small children in the process of their evacuation to Canada, by a Nazi torpedo, the heart-rending stories of which came over the air to us by radio last Monday morning. Somehow ...
... with casualties o! wounded civilians ns well as the sick nd wounded of the fighting forces. Owing to losses in the evacuation from Flanders and France. huge %2 th es of stores. ambulances, have etc., ad to be replnced and this has been a ver matter, Mav ...
... 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 ...
... reinforced more swiftly than training, had been promised. It gave a grand INDIVIDUAL SUPERIORITY account of itself in the Flanders battles.! Our aircraft are the best in the and in spite of the defection of King world* to-day and, as we overhaul I.eopold ...
... 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 ...
... in France without a single casualty. The B.E.F. was steadily reinforced all through the months that preceded the battle of Flanders, and at rate more swift than had been promised to our French Allies. In the middle of May, 1940, the total strength was 422 ...