... here and elsewhere. WE have now made up all our losses in stores and equipment which resulted from the fighting in Flanders and the evacuation from Dunkirk, though this has naturally iheant that other equipment which would have been ready by now has had to ...

... the Dunkirk perimeter and were steadily evacuated, it is obvious he wanted to stay with them to the last man, but he had orders from the Government, which specifically told him that as soon the 8.E.F., by evacuation, fell below a strength of three divisions ...

... FRANCE & FLANDERS heroically over the same ground 25 years ago. The scene of battle was set around old ml her places such a« Yprea, Bnelen. Wytschaete, Boesvnghe and Poperinghe. In the words of Mr. Winston Churchill the evacuation from Dunkirk symbolised ...

... Comviander-in-Chief of the B.E.F. during the Battle of Flanders, are to be published to-morrow. They cover the period from the start of the German invasion of the Low Countries to the evacuation, three weeks’ later, of the British forces from Dunkirk ...

... Northumberland who took part in the Greek hostilities, was safely evacuated from Greece. The Duke who '.creeded to the title on the death et Ms brother, who was killed in rearguard action in Flanders test Joae, unmarried. , He is the tenth Duka and was studying ...

... of nearly a century', now look like war-scarred derelicts of a village in Flanders during the Great War. At least 50 peace - loving, non - combatant families have been evacuated from their homes. Two families were badly hit, the occupants having a miraculous ...

... carrying important despatches from Mr. Bevin s Talk to Socialists General Weygand to Lord Gort at the height of the fighting in Flanders in 1940. General Billotte was killed in a motor accident, and his loss a tragedy for France. It is possible that if the ...

... as usual, was too small for the job. Twice our troops had to evacuate Holland, our record in land fighting was bad. and the generalship worse. But we never faltered. After every evacuation we went back again, thanks to sea power. The next British landing ...

... Papagos foresaw the future and it is said that it was he who advised that it would be better for the Greeks to cover a British evacuation and then to make the best possible terms. The King of the Hellenes and Gen. Wilson, however felt that the British should ...

... and before the war was employed by Messrs G. and N. Wright, timber merchants. He took part in th 4 Flanders campaign and was in the Dunkirk evacuation. BI,YTH EFFORT FOR N.S.P. I.C.C. The Blyth Ladies Committee of the National Society for the Prevention ...

... awarded the M.M. for his bravery in Flanders last May. He was with his company of the D.L.I. occupying outposts on high ground at Les Monts, and brought in several wounded men. including an officer, from an evacuated forward pos.tion while under heavy ...

... xchange in civil life) and ' a rifleman with a D.C.M.. none of whom were members of the party of 4: whom the Navy managed to evacuate. Seventeen mocnths after the event they amplified accounts they had already given anonymously when the doings of the force ...