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Dunkirk Veteran

... Dunkirk Veteran Bound Over for Theft at Churchinford An ex-Guardsman, with 12 rears' service, including Dunkirk. the North Africa and Italy campaigns, pleaded guilty at Somerset Quarter Sessions at Taunton on Wednesday to steala, 12-bore gun clothing ...

MOTS AT DUNKIRK

... MOTS AT DUNKIRK. STRIKERS CHARGED BY CAVALRY. .Serious riots occurred in France, on Tbnrs* «lay morning tbf dcck who strike. Tbey the streets, net lire inflammable goo'U on tli«* quays, and i house. Shops were looted, and spajH-r office* attacked. The ...

BOMBS ON DUNKIRK

... BOMBS ON DUNKIRK. TWO CIVILIANS KILLED AND FOUR INJURED. A French official message issued Tuoday states that Zeppelin dropped eight bombs Dunkirk Mondav night, killing two civilians and ittjurmft four others. ...

WATCH FOUND AT DUNKIRK

... WATCH FOUND AT DUNKIRK SOLDIER'S STORY TO PAWNBROKER Maurice Towers, an Army driver, pleaded guilty Bridgwater Police-court Monday, to having given false information concerning a watch offered pawn to a pawnbroker Raymond Wright, an Army driver, said ...

BATTLE OFF DUNKIRK

... OFF DUNKIRK FOUR ENEMY VESSELS BELIEVED SUNK. ONE BRITISH-DESTROYER DAMAGED. An Admiralty communique issued on Thursday afternoon states:— Two British and three French destroyers were engaged between (our and live o'clock this morning ott Dunkirk with ...

DUNKIRK SURVIVOR SENTENCED

... DUNKIRK SURVIVOR SENTENCED TAUNTON RAILWAY THEFT A survivor from Dunkirk. Private Archibald Parfitt. of the Pioneer Corps, aged 48. was sent to gaol for six months by Taunton Borough Bench on Wednesday, for stealing ten coats, valued £8 8s 6d, the property ...

LIFEBOATS' WORK AT DUNKIRK

... LIFEBOATS' WORK AT DUNKIRK ONE SAVED 2,800 MEN In talk on The Lifeboat Service to the Taunton Rotary Club on Friday. Captain Basil Hall 8.N., showed that between 4,000 and 5,000 lives had been ,saved d«iring the present war apart from the work which ...

DUNKIRK VETERAN DIES

... DUNKIRK VETERAN DIES A Dunkirk veteran, Mr. Samuel Charles Widger. who. for the last, four years had been employed with the Brit Engineering Company, at Bridport, died at his home, la, Barr Lane, Burton Bradstock. Saturday. He was 50. Mr. Widger, who ...

Fly flags on Dunkirk day?

... Fly flags on Dunkirk day? Delegates to the British Legion conference at Torquay this week passed a resolution suggesting that the Union Flag should be flown from all public buildings every 4th June to commemorate Dunkirk, 'in order to perpetuate this ...

BAR IN THE AIR. GREAT FIGHT OVER DUNKIRK

... AIR. GREAT FIGHT OVER DUNKIRK. 80 BOMBS DROPPED. SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED AND MANY INJURED. ALLIES DRIVE OFF GERMANS. BRITISH RAiDONZEEBRUGGE DAMAGE TO SUBMARINES AND GUNS. ZEPPELIN WRECKED IN NORTH SEA. LOST WITH ALL THE CREW. Dunkirk, so often attacked by ...

DUNKIRK MAN LET HIMSELF GO

... DUNKIRK MAN LET HIMSELF GO ATTACK ON FOREMAN AT BRIDGWATER A young man who was wounded Dunkirk and had been torpedoed three times, Albert Edward Webber, labourer, of 35 Edward-street, pleaded guilty at Bridgwater Borough Court on Monday to assaulting ...