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THE SECOND WAS CHRISTMAS

... us 114.555 dead and wounded, one-third of the losses on the main battlefields of France and Flanders Our total casualties all fronts were 528.227. were evacuating Suvla. beginning. Indeed, our wholesale departure from the Gallipoli peninsula. From the Salonika ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 268 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

3 Churchill Me ris. ing tide Takes Over a criti,-

... Boulogne, and • the other vital ports, there started the greatest rearguard action in the history of warfare—the British evacuation from Dunkirk. Nearly 400.000 men, drawn from all quarters of the shattered battle line, started the long trek back to the ...

Published: Sunday 29 December 1940
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2062 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

THE BRETON THORN: An Intimate and Detailed Account of the Region from Which the Germans are now Operating ..

... to the north ward, in the Mountains of Men^z whose highest point may be only 1,115 feet, yet a Mt. Cassel dominates French Flanders from half as high. Its pivotal centres would have been Louddac and Pontivv, which Napoleon conceived as a strongpoint and ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1828 | Page: 11 | Tags: Maps 

Way of the War: A Happier Christmas

... Christmas, 1939, was a pretty dreary business. Our Expeditionary Force, hurriedly dispatched to France, was bogged in the mud of Flanders, occupying ill-prepared positions with nearly 150 miles of Belgium lying between its front line and the enemy, none knowing ...

Published: Wednesday 25 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2687 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

... High-street, jot warm protective clothing fort The oldest., surest and gentlest Ealing. remedy fur kidney and bladder !children evacuated from our' trouble Oil of Juniper. JUNO borough and whose parents need! JUNIPAH are the only Mineral assistance in equipping ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1940
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2376 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHEAM Thursday 5th Lester MILITARY TAILORS Alao Wamrai High Street CIRCULATING IN Epsom Phono SUTTON CHEAM ..

... action which exploded behind shops following night shattered ard windows but caused no casualties the immediate vicinity been evacuated LEGION CLUB DAMAGED A pounds bomb crashed into the roadway outside British Legion club but fortunately the club not the time ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1940
Newspaper: Sutton & Epsom Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3734 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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... Hlro Motor Trips CROYDON — Smart Private Care at shortest notice -t- Cleveland Hire Service 21 Pltlake BIG COMFORTABLE CAR— Evacuation or any occasion distance lowest rates —Croydon 8483 OCCASION - Saloon Car for Hire fully insured Rd Addlscombe 2843 SELF-DRIVE ...

Published: Thursday 05 December 1940
Newspaper: Sutton & Epsom Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 4523 | Page: 7 | Tags: none