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Kent Airmen Honoured

... Kent Airmen Honoured For gallantry and devotion to duty prior to the evacuation of France and Flanders. two Kent airmen. Sergeant Derrick Norrington and Sergeant Laniard Frederick Waern, both of the same squadron, have been awarded the D.F.PA. Sergeant ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1940
Newspaper: Faversham News
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 81 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

KENT AIRMEN HONOURED

... KENT AIRMEN HONOURED. For gallantry and devotion to duty prior to the evacuation of France and Flanders, two Kent airmen, Sergeant Derrick .\'oninglm;nnd Sergeant Lennart Frederick Waern, both of the same squad- ha\': l;»:;n'.;;\l;'ded the D.F.M geant ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1940
Newspaper: Sheerness Times Guardian
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TELLS U.S.A. OF VICHY

... In it, he supplies America with a defence of the Vichy Government and tells of bis >.wn experiences in the debacle. He was Flanders « the Germans struck and arrested Fifth Columnists, who were spreading rumours among the fleeing population. Headquarters ...

Published: Thursday 21 November 1940
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

REMEMBRANCE-DAY

... W. Young) gave an address. A Incledon Webber, with British Legion officials and an escort of Home Guard, laid a wreath of Flanders poppies and laurels on the Memorial Cross In the centre of the village. Briysh Legion poppy collection raised £36 12s 6d ...

O Connor, of Cedar-avenue, Lincoln, from Slalag XXI, prison camp in Germany, where is prisoner of war. Pte. ..

... R.A F.. has been awarded the D.F.C. lor devotion to duty and gallantry while attached to the A A S.F. before the evacuation of Flanders and France. Flying Officer Honor was bom In Buenos Aires in 1913. and was educated at Calstor Grammar School, at which ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 407 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GLEMSFORD

... recited In Flanders Fields. The Head Master asked the children to remember. 1. the ftgures 11-11-18 as a very important date; 2. the number of men wounded and disabled; 3. the fact that the central memorial was to an unknown soldier; 4. that Flanders poppies ...

Published: Thursday 21 November 1940
Newspaper: Suffolk and Essex Free Press
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 633 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TROOPS DYNAMITE COVENTRY RUINS

... City From Our Special Correspondent, J. Iltingworth COVENTRY, Sunday LOUDSPEAKER vans ordered the civilian population to evacuate several streets of Coventry this afternoon, while troops dynamited the smouldering shells of bombed buildings. Bugle calls ...

MARGATE ITEMS

... and the Chief Constable (Mr. W. Palmer) laid wreaths of Flanders poppies on the Margate War Memorial. and in the Services section at Margate Cemetery. where men who died after the Dunkirk evacuation and airmen are laid to real Illehdeeance Order. At Margate ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1940
Newspaper: East Kent Times and Mail
County: Kent, England
Type: | Words: 775 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IS PROGRESS BEING MADE TOWARDS LOWER RATES? Bogs weeks ago the ratepayers were much encouraged by the ..

... sound of gunfire, the boys in blue from Summerdown provided the principal reminder that epic battles were being fought in Flanders. To-day, with the enemy in occupation of the northern French coast, the wartime scene has undergone a complete transformation ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1940
Newspaper: Eastbourne Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 786 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Husband Cites Wife’s Head Master in Divorce Sul

... tenants of such places to put by their weekly rent until the legal position was made clear. A working-class man who was evacuated with his firm the country, where he had now Been joined by his family, had told the magistrate that he could not pay 28s ...

Published: Tuesday 19 November 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1298 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WREATHS FOR THE FALLEN

... laid a wreath on behalf of The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Pleetwwd. The British Legion's wreath—a broken circle of Flanders poppies —was laid by Mr. T. Worthington, president of the British Legion Club. and Supt. T. R. Bailey placed the tribute ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1940
Newspaper: Fleetwood Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

... will regularly attend meetings. As we forecast three weeks ago, the members discussed whether or not to place a wreath of Flanders Poppies on the grave of the German prisoner of warn the Northampton-road cemetery, as has been the practice for the past ...