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... and taken a position there. Enemy aircraft came over in 100 s and :;-y—lyo-adauyd “Monday, May 27 — BEF are ordered to evacuate Flanders towards Dunkirk. We are fighting on three sides against many divisions of mechanised columns of tanks and guns. It's ...

Published: Thursday 31 May 1990
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 141 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUDDEN DEATH OF LOCAL CRICKETER

... outbreak of the last war and figured in the evacuation at Dunkirk; he was then captain. Continually harassed enemy aircraft, guns and rifle fire, he brought two subalterns and 100 men for 45 miles through Flanders to Dunkirit. where, after spending some time ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1956
Newspaper: Eastbourne Herald
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Golden Wedding Pair

... wife Daisy a church In the Old Krni-road. Along came the First World War and Mr. Waldron was back in uniform, serving in Flanders. While he was away Mrs. Waldron got herself Job in Jam factory in her native London. Twenty years later war came t End of ...

Published: Friday 16 March 1956
Newspaper: Sussex Express
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

~ Lest we should ever forget

... can afford to look back and smile ruefully at the mistake which cost his mother so much anguish. Few other aspects of the evacuation — faithfully recorded in a battered war diary (below) he still retains war was inevitable and joined the town’s Territorial ...

Published: Thursday 31 May 1990
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 805 | Page: 7 | Tags: none