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PLANS FOR DUNKIRK MEDAL

... PLANS FOR DUNKIRK MEDAL THE Treasury Committee on Honours. Medals and Decorations in Time of War are understood to be considering the striking of a Dunkirk Medal to be awarded to all men who took part in the historic evacuation. The medal wi'il most ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HEAVY SHIPPING LOSSES Worst Week Since Dunkirk 32 BRITISH VESSELS SUNK Mercantile losses due to enemy action ..

... HEAVY SHIPPING LOSSES Worst Week Since Dunkirk 32 BRITISH VESSELS SUNK Mercantile losses due to enemy action for the week ended October 20-21 ( the Admiralty announce ) were : — Ships Gross tonnage British 32 146 , 528 Allied 7 24 . 686 Neutral . C 26 ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... Normanby, who was serving with the Green Howards, is a prisoner of war. He was last seen at a casualty clearing station near Dunkirk. ...

NEVILLE DID NOT TROUBLE AT ALL

... panic and Neville did not seem to trouble at all” DUNKIRK MEDAL MAY BE STRUCK Treasury Committee on honours, medals and decorations in time of war are understood to be considering the striking of a Dunkirk Medal to be awarded to all men who took part in ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 309 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MERITORIOUS SERVICE

... awarded the Medal of the most Excellent Order of the British Empire, for meritorious service. T.-S.-M. Newby, who was at Dunkirk. served for six years in the Royal Field Artillery, and after another six years in the reserves he rejoined his old regiment ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Stirling Observer
County: Stirlingshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PRISONER OF WAR

... Kie, Ist Batt. K. 0.5.8., is a prisoner of war, and is presently in hospital at Eughien, Germany. He was posted missing at Dunkirk in June, and this is the first news received of him since. The communication gives no intimation whether he is suffering from ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TOWN HALL SERVICES

... concert will be given in aid of the regimental funds of a battalion which lost much of its equipment in the evacuation of Dunkirk. It is expected that, under this dual arrange ment, the Town Hall might well be crowded, but special provision may be made ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AN APPEAL

... AN APPEAL A regiment in Ilawick is in much need of hockey sticks owing to their sports kit being lost at Dunkirk, end anyosse who can oblige by supplying sticks should band them to Mr Stothart, 6 High Street. Help will be greatly appreciated. Mrs G. M ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Hawick Express
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LOST LUXURY LINER

... a member of the liner ' s crew- since she was commissioned nine years ago . and he was on one of the ships engaged in the Dunkirk evacuation . ~ ; Mr J . Brawley , ninth engineer , said : The boat I was in overturned . A large number of people were in ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A BAD WEEK FOR SHIPPING

... loss of Allied ships working in our service is added in, is the most disastrous since the war began, with the exception of Dunkirk week, when many of the merchant ships sunk were engaged in direct war service. A graph of the shipping losses shows a curious ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MORE STORIES OF EMPRESS SINKING

... East, was member of the liner's.crew since she was commissioned nine years ago, and was on one of the ships engaged in the Dunkirk evacuation. Deck Aflame. Mr Metcalfe chief third-class steward, — The first that most of knew about it was when we had very ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 177 | Page: 8 | Tags: none