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Flanders fell because of shorts of arms, am bad plannin

... Flanders fell because of shorts of arms, am bad plannin VISCOUNT GORT'S own story of the Battle of Flanders —told in his dispatches as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force—give the people of Britain today the inner history of that heroic ...

Published: Friday 17 October 1941
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
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INFANTRY STILL ARMY'S MAINSTAY FIELD-MARSHAL SIR CYRILI Deverell, formerly Chief of the Imperial General Staff, ..

... Army. In Flanders it was proved again and again that infantry could defend positions, even against armoured fighting vehicles and air !attack,' he continued. It was infantry who held the Dunkirk bridgehead and made it possible for, the evacuation to be carried ...

Published: Sunday 18 May 1941
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NORWOOD SPORTS CLUB Lawn Tennis Section's Programme

... season on the Ist pros. In common with nearly all clubs, the enlistment of so many of our young men and women. plus the evacuation to the country of other members, has seriously depleted the membership but the club will definitely carry on, and was reported ...

Published: Saturday 26 April 1941
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLUB OPENED Vicar's Wartime Effort The Rev. G. Frarey Whittleton. Vicar of St. Jude's Church, ..

... a London City Missionary that Mr. Lake has been granted leave of absence. The last time he went with Kitchener's Army to Flanders and Germany in the R.A.)d.C. for 31 years. DOWNSVIEW METHODIST CHURCH Downsview Methodist Church is holding I Its Direct ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1941
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 410 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ill-arm to war

... 1,000. Then listen to this: On the evening of May 19, enemy action obliged them (the main body of the Air Component) to evacuate from their main Operational aerodrome at Abbeville. From May 21 onwards, all arrangements for air co-operation with the ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1941
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 574 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SHOULD CABINET MINISTERS CONTRIBUTE SUNDAY POSTSCRIPTS?

... leader. They put back Maurice Healy. the man who told us that all was well in Flanders, when many of us in Fleet Street knew that the Army was being cut and might not be evacuated. This is not an hour for bedtime stories. We want grins of the urgency of our ...

Published: Saturday 01 February 1941
Newspaper: John Bull
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS— Oct. 18, 1941 assistance the soreiy harassed British, French and Belgian Armies. ..

... com- MANDED THE /J$ V . i® MANDED THE THE (NOW J GENERAL GEORGES, 9| ™ E LATE C MAJOR-GENERAL (NOW LIEUT.- PART OF THE ' ' EVACUATION. | HENRY) POWNALL, CHIEF OF THE \ / SECOND IN COMMAND . a.ta § - \ 3RD ARMY CORPS. ■HIM ' I ? MANDED THE 50TH B W' TH ,he ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1941
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 623 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Fatally Injured sltb Screwdriver In

... the in-1 quest at the Mission Hall, Brentford, concermng the death on New Year's Day, of Miss Violet Fearn, sixty-six, of Flanders-road, Chiswick. Evidence was given that she fell downstairs. SEED FOB BILLETING CHARGES A. Braidford, of White BUle-road ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1941
Newspaper: Kensington Post
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 414 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ASHFORD

... Army four years ago and was with the first contingent of the B.E.F. to go to Prance. After the Battle of Flanders he was one of the first to be evacuated from Dunkirk. Before joining the Army he was employed as a pontoon man by the Feltham Sand and Gravel ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1941
Newspaper: Middlesex Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 487 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WESTMINSTER NOTES

... children evacuated from the metropolis, practically all the authorities have agreed to make a contribution to a common fund. This will be distributed to the billeting authorities on the basis of the numbers of children, irrespective of age, evacuated from ...

Published: Friday 14 November 1941
Newspaper: Westminster & Pimlico News
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1659 | Page: 2 | Tags: none