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DUNKIRK MAN

... DUNKIRK MAN The Preston Fire Brigade did splendid work, the officers making attempts at great peril to get at the people, but they were unsuccessful, and were only able to recover the bodies after the fire had been extinguished. All the bodies were found ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

GALLANTRY AT DUNKIRK

... GALLANTRY AT DUNKIRK Missing D.S.O. Major Safe Major Philip Harker Newman, R.A.M.C., who was awarded the D.S.O. for gallantry at Dunkirk, and who was reported missing, believed prisoner of war, in July, is now known to be safe and well. His father, Mr ...

Published: Monday 09 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 221 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MIRACLE

... DUNKIRK MIRACLE was sura that Dunkirk was the moral and strategic turning point in the war. Hitler's plans war* shattered at that point and the aspect of the war changed. Had the BXT. not been saved miraculously it might have bean possible to invade certain ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 583 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK VICTIM

... A DUNKIRK VICTIM body found on - FRENCH COAST BOSTON SOLDIER’S death Almost exactly two years after her marriage Mrs. Dorothy May Graves, of Witham-terrace. Boston, has been notified that the body of her husband. Private Harold Ernest Graves, has been ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1940
Newspaper: Boston Guardian
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MEN DROWNED TWO men who were at Dunkirk have been drowned in Lake Huron, one in an attempt to

... DUNKIRK MEN DROWNED TWO men who were at Dunkirk have been drowned in Lake Huron, one in an attempt to save the other, says a Port Albert. Ontario, message. They were Bert Aiden George, of Cheltenham, and John Spencer Debenham, of Farnham, Surrey, both ...

Published: Monday 09 December 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 76 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Dunkirk D.S.O. Major Safe \f AJOR PHILIP HARUR NIWMAN. RAM.C.. who was awarded the D.S O. (or sa'.laotry at ..

... Dunkirk D.S.O. Major Safe \f AJOR PHILIP HARUR NIWMAN. RAM.C.. who was awarded the D.S O. (or sa'.laotry at Dunkirk, and who was reported missing believed prisoner war In July, bow known to safe and well. His father. Mr. J. H. Newman, o( •• Mannoßeld ...

Published: Tuesday 10 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW JOBS FOR HOSIERY

... Already girls were being trained for light engineering work, and thousands could be absorbed. Dunkirk Girl Injured Hiss Joyce Martin (If). 61, Lacestreet, Dunkirk, was knocked down by a motor-cycle in Parliamentstreet Nottingham, last evening, and sustained ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WAR AND WEATHER MADE 1940 RECORD YEAR FOR RAILWAYS

... demands to meet expanding industrial undertakings, altered hours of work, exceptionally severe weather, the evacuation from Dunkirk, the black-out and the blitz have been historic features. At the beginning of the year special trains for conveying troops ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 406 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LEAGUE PARLIAMENT HELD IN NOTTINGHAM

... next mu tin* of the League Management Committee era* fixed to take piece at Sheffield 17 January. Dunkirk Stories at Worksop School Memories of the Dunkirk evacuation were recalled gathering at St John's Boys’ School. Worksop on Saturday. Under the auspices ...

Published: Monday 16 December 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 516 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THREE BROTHERS IN ARMS

... of her was a machinist employed by tho Ripley eons aro members of lI.M. Forces and Lace Co. Ltd , ono of them was in the Dunkirk dram They all appear to regard the Army a not unpleasantly . active life, and no qualms about a job of work that has bo done ...