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LEFT BEHIND AT DUNKIRK

... LEFT BEHIND AT DUNKIRK regimental drum of the 11 Wiltshires, which wa s hidden in the cellar of a house after the evacuation of Dunkirk, is to be returned to the regiment b.• the widow of the man who found it, Mrs. Iversen, of Silkeborg. Denmark. Mrs ...

Published: Tuesday 30 December 1958
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk din-ner!

... Dunkirk din-ner! DUNKIRK veteran Tom Barrett can be forgiven for making an awful noise at the annual buffet dance of the Stafford branch of the National Dunkirk Veterans' Association - for when he tried his hands or rather lips at bagpipe ...

Published: Friday 04 March 1977
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Veterans recall Dunkirk

... Veterans recall Dunkirk BRITISH veterans were Joining French colleagues In Dunkirk today to commemorate the end of Alllea resistance around the port In 16441. The French were recalling the an- niversary of the day their country surrendered to the Germans ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1990
Newspaper: Sandwell Evening Mail
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 121 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK ROMPS HOME IN

... DUNKIRK ROMPS HOME IN Clements on City's wing at Swindon Dave Clemente, who has scored a goal in each of his three League games, switched from inside-left to left-wing a reshuffled Ooventsy City attack at Swindon this afternoon. - Poliov4 their defeat ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1965
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 85 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Veterans' tribute at Dunkirk

... to France and Belgium next May to mark the 50th anniversary of the evacuation of troops from the Dunkirk beaches. As officials and members of the Dunkirk Veterans' Association Stoke branch make plans for the week-long pilgrimage, secretary Alf Horde!l ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1989
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 144 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The spirit Dunkirk lives in Coventry

... The spirit Dunkirk lives in Coventry Evening Telegraph Reporter THE number of branches and members of the Dunkirk Veterans' Association had never been higher than at present, it was said at the first annual dinner of the Coventry branch on Saturday. The ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1973
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES PLAN PILGRIMAGE

... DUNKIRK HEROES PLAN PILGRIMAGE PLANS are being made by the Dunkirk Veterans' Association to make a pilgrimage to Dunkirk at Whitsun. Members of the Coventry branch who attended their first reunion dinner on Saturday night were told that if they could ...

Published: Monday 29 October 1956
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 302 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

County Pilgrims to Dunkirk Memorial

... County Pilgrims to Dunkirk Memorial A NUMBER of Coventry and Rugby people will be among the 1,546 British Legion pilgrims who will attend the unveiling of the Dunkirk Memorial by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on June 29. The memorial is dedicated to ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1957
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 559 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dunkirk veterans 'must be heard'

... Dunkirk veterans 'must be heard' VETERANS of Dunkirk were urged on Saturday to make their voices heard U the freedom for which they fought was ever threatened. Councillor Ralph Clews. a major in the Second World War, was speaking at the annual dinner ...

Published: Monday 14 February 1977
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 422 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

‘Get back the Dunkirk spirit’

... ‘Get back the Dunkirk spirit’ THERE would have te be another Dunkirk spirit in Industrf' to get workers to devote themselves to their work and really enjoy it, said the Rev. T. G. Platten, principal of Saltley College, at Birmingham Cathedral today. “It ...

Published: Tuesday 14 March 1950
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 858 | Page: 5 | Tags: none