On Land* It Was Never T British Army That Fail

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
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MORE WARWICK MEN SERVING WITH THE FORCES

... 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 ...

SIX DO

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1384 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Armchair Trips to Africa and S. America: Two Outstanding Travel Books and Interesting Novels in this Week's New ..

... School have recently been presenting at Moreland Hall, London, in aid of charity. The show was conceived when the School evacuated to Lancing, and a private performance was given there: when the school moved again to Exeter the boys did it publicly. The ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1936 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

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 ...

Chichester Notes THE LATE COL. C A. HANKEY

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

Published: Saturday 07 September 1940
Newspaper: Chichester Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 1559 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

T f Se WY 8 BLAIRGOWRIE ADVERTISER FRIDAY 6th SEPTEMBER CONFIDENT ARMY Second Year Very Different the Rt Hon ..

... steadily reinforced through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than been promised gave a grand of itself in the Flanders battles spite of the defection King Reopold and the break through other flank at Sedan it fought its back to Dunkirk and ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Blairgowrie Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1624 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LOCAL OFFICERS AND MEN IN WAR CASUALTY LISTS

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2059 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MISSING BROTHERS ARE WAR PRISONERS

... heard of at Ledringham, when his company were holding up the Germans; and William was last seen at Dunkirk the time of the evacuation. Raymond and William are the second and third sons of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The eldest is Trooper James Smith, of the Glo ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2110 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TYPEWRITERS

... civilians now also come under the care the Bed Cross and St. John War Organization. Ml stores and ambulances lost in the. evacuation from Flanders and France have been replaced, and there bus been built up for use home fleet of ambulances supplement the provision ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1940
Newspaper: Mid Sussex Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 3301 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO LET GOWER ROAD he Seller Reaches the Buyer containing Reception Rooms Kitchen and Scullery 3 Bathroom and ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 14 September 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4957 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

18 1940 (Stale BROADCASTING IN PAGE THREE r NO 20997 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 1940 Registered L as Newspaper t e

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3304 | Page: 1 | Tags: none