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THIS Dunkirk

... THIS Dunkirk IT wasn’t all heroism at Dunkirk . .. the ~ *““ miracle ”’ of the evacuation would have been complete if it had been. The shore-based French naval authorities eyed the British with suspicion, even hostility. SOME SOLDIERS, LEFPT ON THEIR ...

Published: Sunday 08 June 1958
Newspaper: Sunday Mail (Glasgow)
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 356 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Their Dunkirk

... Their Dunkirk Next week 200 veterans of Dunkirk will sail for the beaches on which they fought brilliant rearguard action ten years ago. But they will only see the sand dunes from afar because the British Customs will not permit them to land. The men ...

Published: Saturday 27 May 1950
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK Miles Dempsey, born in Cheshire, became a 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1916, and served in the First! ‘World War, from 1916-18. He was wounded, :mentioned in ‘despatches and received ‘the }Militafy Cross. ~ -In the Second ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1969
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

NO “DUNKIRKS”

... NO “DUNKIRKS” In territories that were too small to follow the normal road of development through responsible government to independence, British rule would no doubt remain. Even in those countries from whom the road to independence was clearly markedalthough ...

Published: Tuesday 22 March 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK “After being in the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War he took the 69th Brigade, then upm of the 50th Division, to the Middle East and fought at Bir Hakim and El Alamein. As a maj.-gen. he commanded the 7th Armoured Division before ...

Published: Monday 30 August 1965
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 185 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... Dunkirk WHY Hitler did not i?y - Britain immedij* after the evacuation of Dunkir, always been a mystery, Luftwaffe was sent to clear J and, in the Battle of utterly defeated—the first blow legend of Nazi invincibility- But on land Hitler was everywhere ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 1945
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK”

... DUNKIRK” JAMES McDOWALL Record War Correspondent With the Bth Thursday. SICILIAN “DUNKIRK’’ IS IN FROM PORTS AND BEACHES NORTH-EAST TIP OF THE ISLAND MEN WITH TANKS. GUNS AND C* being ferried every day to C^nd. i I « **M ig| German has priority in this ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1943
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 410 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK One of the pilots who raided Dunkirk said; “I arrived over the harbour a few minutes before ten. My heavy bombs hit number five dock and some buildings at the dockside. Great pieces of the building went flying through the air. Smaller bombs ...

Published: Thursday 19 September 1940
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 67 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK npHE recapture of St. Valeriy, which thrilled the whole of Scotland, has been immediately followed by a victory at which the whole of the Kingdom and Empire, and all the friends of freedom in the world, must rejoice. Dunkirk has been encircled ...

Published: Tuesday 05 September 1944
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 326 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK He was in the evacuation from Dunkirk and, when he held the rank of Sergeant Major. he was the youngest Warrant Officer In the British Army. He was commissioned to the Cameronians and served with the Indian Parachute Regiment in India and Burma ...

Published: Friday 20 January 1961
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 64 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK cos A dramatuc recon struction of the World War II rout at Dunkirk in Normandy. Starring John Mills. (1958) 3.15 -WAR WALKS: 3.4.5 —OM THE V/OODEN NORSE Story of one of the most ingenious e , ..ape bids of World War 11. (19501 5.25 THE SAINT 5 ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1997
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 352 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK It had been intended that he should join the company in 1939, but by that time he was already following his father's interest in the Territorial Army and bad enlisted in the 6th Cameronians. He was called up in August, 1939, and at the stage ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1959
Newspaper: Wishaw Press
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 90 | Page: 5 | Tags: none