... WAR IN FRANCE AND FLANDERS PROUD RECORD OF ROYAL WARWICKS STORY OF GALLANT ENDEAVOUR The story of the work and courage of members of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in France and Flanders is revealed in an official account of their actions. The story ...

... 113, Frankley Beeches Road, Northfield. He is 21 and earned his decoration for meritorious conduct during the fighting in Flanders last year. When driving the Colonel’s car he ran into a German post, but acted so promptly that the car was successfully ...

... Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the outbreak of war, when he was placed in command of the B.E.F. He directed the evacuation at Dunkirk until most of the troops had been got away, and then, at the order of the Government, returned to London. He ...

... Military Correspondent L Peking a reason for the publication now of Lord Gort’s longl despatches on the operations in France and Flanders, which at Dunkirk in the virtual destruction of the best trained and equipped fighting unit we have ever sent overseas, it ...

... Stock Exchange in civil life), and a rifleman with D.C.M., none whom were members of the party of 47 whom the Navy managed to evacuate. Seventeen months after the event they amplified accounts they had already given anonymously when the doings of the force ...

... the German attack. ■ General Sir Alan Brooke is an expert mechanisation. was in Flanders when the Germans invade the Low Countries and France and took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He has spent most of his life in the Army and comes from an Ulster ...

... the achievement in giving time for Egypt and upsetting Rashid Ali’s plans was ample preparation for the news of our latest evacuation. It may be, as official spokesmen point out, that the gallant resistance of the defenders of Crete has upset the German ...

... soldiers escaped from Dunkirk to England, not counting • ® thousands more of French troops evacuated from Dunkirk °^ e ports in France. main causes of the Flanders tragedy that came to a • Caches of Dunkirk were: Failure of Allied support I^er 1 a Weygand ...

... foresaw the future, and it is said that it Was he wiho 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 General Wilson, however, felt that the British should ...

... Independence, you appreciate why standardisation would be difficult. MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, who has at last ordered compulsory evacuation of certain children that children suffering or likely to suffer in mind or body from hostile air attacks must leave London ...

... held up the Germans while the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force hurried to a secret rendezvous on the coast and were evacuated. I embarked on a convoy of 11,500 troops, among whom were scores of Dunkirk veterans. In some ways it was like Dunkirk all ...

... their vehicles across Norway and Sweden, they worked in Finland for some weeks and, when the war came to an end, helped to evacuate Finns from the area ceded to Russia. Almost immediately the German invasion of Norway occurred, and the unit offered its ...