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DUNKIRK MEDAL?

... DUNKIRK MEDAL? The Treasury Committee on medals. and decorations in ume of war, are understood to be considering the striking of a Dunkirk Medal to be awarded to all men who took part in the historik: evacuation. The medal will most likely be on the ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK If we look hack over the few months, lie said, •• we realise that we have passed through a time when, doubt, in the opinion of the majority of the world, we stood face to face with danger and disaster. Now the tide has turned ...

Published: Monday 21 October 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Bombarded by Navy

... Dunkirk Bombarded by Navy THE Admiralty issued the following communique last night:— A naval bombardment of the port of Dunkirk was carried out by our forces last night. Fires were seen to have been caused, and it is considered that much damage resulted ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Trials At Dunkirk And Norway

... Trials At Dunkirk And Norway There has been no Grand Fleet action, and it is the men in the small ships which took part in the operations at Dunkirk and Norway who have borne the heaviest burden.” He told the story of one destroyer engaged off the Norwegian ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 325 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MEDAL TO BE ISSUED?

... DUNKIRK MEDAL TO BE ISSUED? COMMEMORATING GREAT EVACUATION The men who stood on the beaches of Dunkirk under a rain of bombs and swam to the ships which brought them back to England may soon be entitled wear meoal commemorating the great evacuation. It ...

Escaped from Dunkirk

... Escaped from Dunkirk. Gunner Pickering was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Pickering, of Geneva-avenue, Lincoln. He was a pupil St Giles' School, and on leaving became apprenticed with William Wright and Son, builders, Lincoln, where his father Is employed ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK MEDAL?

... A DUNKIRK MEDAL? The War Office does not know of any grounds for the statement printed a London newspaper that & Dunkirk Medal to be awarded to soldiers who served Prance between September, 1939, and the collapse Prance. Such a medal (says a writer In ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK APPEAL RESPONSE

... DUNKIRK APPEAL RESPONSE. - - In answer to an urgent appeal tor garments for men returned from Dunkirk. i the committee supplied 68 garments and I distributed 25 pairs of socks to men ' billeted in Yorkshire. A urt her parcel I of comforts was sent to ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHAT DUNKIRK DISPROVED

... WHAT DUNKIRK DISPROVED The evacuation from Dunkirk was shattering to that theory. The British Fleet, in perfect liaison with the Air Force, commanded the narrow waters and enabled that tremendous operation to be carried out in comparative safety. The ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily News
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WHAT DUNKIRK DISPROVED

... WHAT DUNKIRK DISPROVED The evacuation Irom Dunkirk was shattering that theory. The British Fleet, in perfect liaison with the Air Force, commanded the narrow waters and enabled that tremendous operation to be carried out in comparative safety. The British ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Shaken Up At Dunkirk

... Shaken Up At Dunkirk CIGARETTES EASE GIVE As the result of his experiences on the Dunkirk sand dunes, a Morecambe man lay in a British military hospital. During his stay there, expecting to be discharged as unfit, he was handed a packet of cigarettes ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Morecambe Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DEVON FISHERMEN AND DUNKIRK CALL

... DEVON FISHERMEN AND DUNKIRK CALL. ALLEGATIONS that fishermen around the Devon coast who responded to the call to aid in the return of troops evacuated from Dunkirk had not yet been paid for their services and equipment were voiced, and strong complaint ...

Published: Friday 11 October 1940
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 347 | Page: 8 | Tags: none