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BACK FROM FLANDERS

... BACK FROM FLANDERS Sergeant’s Tribute to Men in His Unit Many East Bedfordshire men from the B.E.F. arrived during the past week for forty-eight hours' leave and all had a tale to tell of courage and endurance in the face merciless attacks. Extreme modesty ...

THE EVACUATION OF CANDAHAR The Times correspondent at Candahar sends the following {uuficulurs of the ..

... THE EVACUATION OF CANDAHAR The Times correspondent at Candahar sends the following {uuficulurs of the arrangements for the evacuation of Candahar :— General Hume has published the order of march from Candahar, which, subject to the approval of the Com ...

EYNESBURY

... and sent out to France. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and was discharged from the Army on account of illness in. August 1941. Mr. Ratcliffe’s father, native of St. Neots. went to reside in Guernsey in 1922 and was evacuated shortly after the capitulation ...

SWINESHEAD

... were quickly taken to protect the flowers, and very little damage was done otherwise. Hundreds of greenhouse panes were the evacuation from Dunkirk, said on Monshattered when a heavy-calibre bomb fell day that he did not hear an aeroplane. on land belonging ...

WILSTEAD

... 135 Cardington Read. Bedford, was married on Saturday while on forty-eight hours’ leave. He was with the BE F. in Flanders and was evacuated from Dunkirk. His bride was Miss Winifred Elsie Nottingham, younger daughter of the late Mr. Nottingham and of Mrs ...

BLETCHLEY

... included Mass and the Te Deum, was held at St. Martin’s Church on Sunday for the safe return of the men who have been serving in Flanders. At tne Methodist Church on Saturday. Mr. Thomas Edward Barnes of St. Neots was married to Miss Mabel Ives of 25 Water Eaton ...

WOMEN’S INSTITUTES

... daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Boyack. Mainsof-Camperdown, near Dundee, and Mr Horace Cyril Flanders, only son of Mr. H. R. Flanders. 35 Alexandra Road. Bedford. The Rev. J. Wellington officiated Miss Boyack was given away by her brother ...

BEDFORDIAN MILITARY NOTES

... Finsbury Rifles —and served with it and the 16th Battalion of the same regiment— Queen’s Westminster Rifles—in France and Flanders. He won the Military Cross his gallantry in action on the Western Front in 1918. Major Peter O. B. Sherwood. Bedfs and Herts ...

HAYNES

... France with the British Expeditionary Force six weexs later. In July, 1940, he was evacuated from St. Valerie. During the Great War from 1917 to 1920 he served in Flanders and Germany, Cpl. White’s elder son, Fred, is serving in the Northamptonshire Regiment ...

EYNESBURY

... her sister (Mrs. S. Wildber) and the bridegroom’s sister (Miss Rosa Aldridge). Mr. George Basson was best man. Mr. G. B. Flanders was at the organ. The reception was at Eynesbury Churchroom. The bridegroom is detective-constable in the Leicester Police ...

PERSONAL AND GENERAL

... gained the D.F.C. in 1940 for gallantry and devotion to duty with the Advanced Air Striking Force before the evacuation of France and Flanders. He was promoted squadronleader on Ist December 1941. After three years’ service abroad. Flying-Officer Ronald ...

ST. NEOTS

... British Red Cross held at the Constitutional Club on Tuesday were: Mrs. Taylor, Miss Pack. Mrs. A. Thody, Mrs. Cropley, Mrs. Flanders, and Mrs. Hart. St. Neots branch of the Junior Imperial League helped the British Legion Troops Parcels Fund on Saturday ...