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DUNKIRK SOLDIER

... DUNKIRK SOLDIER ACCUSED OF WIFE’S ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 5 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Next to “Dunkirk”

... Next to “Dunkirk” It was the heaviest British loss sustained in any one week during the war, apart from the losses for the week ended 23 June, when the total was 209.984 tons, but these included the loss of ships during the evacuation from Dunkirk. The average ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MAN GETS 9 MONTHS

... DUNKIRK MAN GETS 9 MONTHS £615 THEFT FROM EMPLOYER TA RIVER LEWIS WILSON, aged 30, of the Royal Engineers, who said that he was in the Dunkirk evacuation, was sentenced to nine months’ hard labour at Dartford to-day for stealing jewellery and money worth ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LANTRY AWARDS t NAVAL HEROES OF DUNKIRK

... LANTRY AWARDS NAVAL HEROES OF DUNKIRK wards “for good services in the with-sre the Allied armies from the French in a supplement to London pi.-j number of Indian Army officers are in the list. j S Gallantl T °nalH e i t 0 Leadin Keith Robb. who. in both ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 833 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUNK in Dunkirk H.M.S. AJAX CASUALTIES

... SUNK in Dunkirk H.M.S. AJAX CASUALTIES (CASUALTIES in H.M.S. Ajax, victorious in action against Italian destroyers were two officers killed and two wounded, nine ratings killed—two being boysand eighteen wounded including five boys. A ' bugler and corporal ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 138 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“HOME FROM DUNKIRK” % is proving a stimulus to poetic expression, and the Birmingham Gazette has recently ..

... “HOME FROM DUNKIRK” % is proving a stimulus to poetic expression, and the Birmingham Gazette has recently received from readers much patriotic verse of varying quality. Considerations of space unfortunately preclude its publication. but an exception is ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 364 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SIGNALLER JOHN GERRARD HABONE, 2876804, Gordon Highlanders, reported missing since the evacuation of Dunkirk, ..

... SIGNALLER JOHN GERRARD HABONE, 2876804, Gordon Highlanders, reported missing since the evacuation of Dunkirk, now prisoner of war in Germany. His mother, Mrs. A. Rabone, of Haunlou. Tamworth, wishes to Thank all friends, especially those St. Chad’s Cathedral ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIVE NAZI CONVOY As fires rage

... bombardment of Dunkirk carried out on Tuesday night appears to have been as spectacularly successful as that undertaken recently at Cherbourg. been successfully attacked and hit with three torpedoes.” From the warships which bombarded Dunkirk fires were seen ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 294 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Nazi Ironworks Bombed in Daylight

... daylight raids, directed chiefly against coastal objectives, from Rotterdam to Dunkirk. The convoy of 12 merchant ships, escorted by war vessels, was sighted close inshore near Dunkirk, during the morning, and attacked from a low level. High - explosive bombs ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BARGES HIT

... against coastal objectives from Rotterdam to Dunkirk (see Page 5), the Air Ministry N.ews Service states that a convoy of 12 merchant ships, escorted by war vessels, was sighted close inshore near Dunkirk during the morning and attacked from a low level ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 215 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

She Said Oui” in an Air Raid Shelter

... She Said Oui” in an Air Raid Shelter A LIVERPOOL girl and a Free French petty officer, evacuated from Dunkirk, became engaged in an air raid shelter. They are to be married to-day at Plymouth. The girl, Miss Irene Fauset, aged 23, was formerly an ice-rink ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 114 | Page: 5 | Tags: none