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GERMAN ATTACK ON DUNKIRK

... GERMAN ATTACK ON DUNKIRK. EIGHTY BOMBS KILL SEVEN PEOPLE. Paris, January 23. A squadron of German aircraft yesterday made an attack on Dunkirk and the surrounding communes, dropping about eighty bombs. Up to the present it lias been ascertained that seven ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1915
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 122 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SUPERSTITION IN DUNKIRK

... SUPERSTITION IN DUNKIRK. Many superstitions and customs which are rapidly becoming extinct in towns are still rile in French Flanders, where amongst the people, and chiefly the seafaring and agricultural classes, hobgoblins, ghosts, sorcerers, and witches ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1893
Newspaper: Warwickshire Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MORE BOMBS ON DUNKIRK

... MORE BOMBS DUNKIRK The from Sir Douglas Haig was issued by the Press Bureau last night: Inn skilling Fusilier* raided the enemy’s trenches this afternoon north-east of Croisillos [below’ Arras] captured few prisoners. Successful raids, which number of ...

Published: Tuesday 30 October 1917
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK AND CALAIS VISITED

... DUNKIRK AND CALAIS VISITED. Paris, March 27. A Tun be flew over Dunkirk this morning, but was quickly driven off by our artillery. Six oombs were dropped but no damage was done.—Keu-ter. Paris, March 23. The Taube aeroplane which flew c.-T Calais ▼esterday ...

Published: Monday 29 March 1915
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 366 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LAST DAYS AT DUNKIRK

... LAST DAYS AT DUNKIRK Pictures of the last days of the siege of Dunkirk have just been released. This one shows British soldiers using their rifles against attacking enemy aircraft. Note the bomb explosions in the sea in the background. ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 40 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE CARTRIDGE EXPLOSION AT DUNKIRK

... THE CARTRIDGE EXPLOSION AT DUNKIRK. Some particulars are furnisded by an eye- wiimess of the fearful explosion at a cartridge factory at Dunkirk last Monday evening :— “Living near the spot where the accident occurred,” he writes, “TI immediately went ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 1871
Newspaper: Aris's Birmingham Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 523 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

REARMAMENT AFTER DUNKIRK

... REARMAMENT AFTER DUNKIRK There is somebody in almost every family in the; country who knows some-’ thing about the way in which something is produced for the fighting services. An attempt has now been made to give a broad picture of what lies behind the ...

Published: Thursday 30 September 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 175 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK THRILLING FEATS

... DUNKIRK THRILLING FEATS Further awards to our heroes of the air were announced to-day. There is one D. 5.0., ten D.F.C.’s and 11 D.F.M.’s. A number of the awards are for heroism during the Dunkirk evacuation. Squadron Leader Philip Algernon Hunter (aged ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 920 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A BALTIC “DUNKIRK’'

... A BALTIC “DUNKIRK’' THE battle for Warsaw is approaching: the decisive stage, with Marshal Rokossovsky swiftly closing in on the city, as 300 miles to the north two German armies face the greatest encirclement disaster since Stalingrad. The Russians have ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A MORAL DUNKIRK

... A MORAL DUNKIRK From Sri Roy Pinsent claims, field sports have such 81r.—We face a moral little support in the com- Dunkirk. We are all to munity at large. I should blame and no one can escape have thought that he and the responsibility of deciding the ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1554 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

“DUNKIRK” BID QUICKENS

... “DUNKIRK” BID QUICKENS VX/’ITH THE SICILIAN CAMPAIGN IN ITS LAST STAGES, CONVERGING BRITISH AND AMERICAN COLUMNS ARE RACING TOWARDS THE KEY ROAD JUNCTION AT RANDAZZO ON THE NORTH-WESTERN SLOPES OF MOUNT ETNA. Whichever force reaches Randazzo first —the ...

Published: Tuesday 10 August 1943
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 113 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Dunkirk spirit . . . or something

... The Dunkirk spirit . . . or something TT is a national characteristic that we British can take any criticism with a smile. We nod cheerfully when some self-appointed critic accuses us of being lousy lovers/horrible cooks , disdainful snobsiunfriendly ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 629 | Page: 23 | Tags: none