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KILLED IN AIR RAID STAFF-SERGT. GIFFORD OF N. BRADLEY

... 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 ...

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

5 WHISPERS ECHOES Evacuees Returned Villagers Saving Scrap Callington’s Enterprise Hie Belated Londons ..

... 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 ...