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2302 LIVES SAVE

... lifeboats of the Institution formed part of the fantastic armada of little boats which evacuated the B . E . F . from Dunkirk . The cost to the Institution m rewards , repairs , and the replacement of a lost boat was over £ 8000 . Many of the launches ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Death of Rev. J. Douglas Glennie The Rev. J. Douglas Glennie, who has died in a military hospital in Scotland

... Territorial Army he took duty with the troops when the present war broke out, served in France, and shared the trials of the Dunkirk evacuation. SIR R. HADFIELD DEAD Sir Robert Hadfield, the S' effield metallurgist, scientist, and inventor, head of Hadfields ...

Published: Wednesday 02 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Sgt.-Major N. Wilson

... is a prisoner of war in Germany. Sergt.-Major Wilson, who is a regular soldier, has been missing since the evacuation of Dunkirk. Private Cumming Dunnachie, Mr and Mrs A. Dunnachie, Main Street, Plean, have been officially notified that their son, Private ...

Published: Thursday 03 October 1940
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 250 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MARKINCH

... and one son. ter is serving in H.M. Fore Furlough.— Bombardier hard Morrison, who was severely wounded atthe evacuation of Dunkirk, is at preseni homo on a month’s convalescence leave. is the younger son and -Mr- Archibald Morrison, Croft Crescent and was ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1940
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIRST IN SCOTLAND CHURCH OF SCOTLAND HUT FOR A.TS

... by the A.T.Sy, made them deserve a hut of their own. She thought with distress of all the huts lost at the evacuation of Dunkirk, with their equipment and stores, but since that time ei%}t huts had been started in the Middle East, and, since their first ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE AVENUE

... tops of the trees at miles hour, and Payter, OOO per throwing down the harpoon, rushed for shelter, making the retreat from Dunkirk look like an also ran. f the committee after- At a. meeting of wards it was agreed to approach the Town Council for permission ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OVER 100 POWER BOMBS ON STATION R ERLIN military objectives were heavily bombed by the R.A.F last night

... Gremberg and several enemy aerodromes. Ports and shipping at Lorient. Cherbourg. Dieppe. Boulogne. Calais. Gravelines and Dunkirk. Ostend. Zeebrugge and Rotterdam and the gun emplacements at Cap Gris Nea were bombed. A large fire was caused at the Templehof ...

Published: Tuesday 08 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CHOCOLATES COST SOLDIER £2

... and had been in the army for 13 years. He was called up at the outbreak of war, and served in France and came through the Dunkirk evacuation. Mr Brooke explained that the day on which he stole the chocolates, 27th September, was the first time he had got ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WHAT HAPPENED IN CHANNEL PORTS

... became more and more imposing, and before long hundreds of barges and other war equipment were assembled at Antwerp, Calais, Dunkirk, Ostend, Nieuport. and Le Havre From the air. many of the barges were daily reported to be moving slowly from one canal to ...

Published: Thursday 24 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 829 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CONCESSIONS WHAT FRANCE HAS TO PAY NAZIS

... people that all stories about the preliminaries of peace. which involved the concession of any part of the French metropolitan Dunkirk Man On Wife Murder Charge Leaning over his wife. who it was alleged, he had shot and bayoneted only a few minutes before, ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

£1,700 REALISED

... be well-known to them all. The Red Cross war in urgent need of funds as a great ieal of its material had been lost at the Dunkirk evacuation and would require to be replaced. A good deal of money was also required for the provision of parcels for prisoners ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: West Lothian Courier
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 351 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Post Even Earlier for This Christmas

... enemy air action. BIG ARMY IN BRITAIN Last Christmas the mail to the troops was handled by the Army Post Office, but since Dunkirk the civilian Post Office has been responsible for it. The fact that such a big Army is now in the homeland means a terrific ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 4 | Tags: none