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... that struck answering chords in the hearts of the visitors. Large numbers of evacues have since returned. For instance, 25,000 evacues arrived in Northampton when evacuation began. Mid-August figures this year showed that less than one sixth of them remained ...
... 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 ...
... Mrs. P. McGearthy, Ballivor, recently was Mr. Thomas Duffy, who fought with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders, and was evacuated at Dunkirk, in the ill-fated troopship, the Lancastria. When the ship went down, Mr. Duffy swam to one of the life ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... im• rtance to the local newspapers. we must have our shelters ready Aorta Champion said: Because and should not bring our evacu- these papers are a great power in ated children home just yet. we the land. They are for the most poa ., part ably conducted ...