... New Warfare described in Lord Gort's Despatches (and also in The Battle of Flanders by Ian Hay, the more popular exposition of the B.E.F.'s experiences in France and Flanders in 1940), is that of the changed conditions experienced in 1940 behind the actual ...

... information that there are no vacancies for Emergency Officers of either class. 10. Owing to the possible evacuation by the enemy of the Flanders coast, with a lessening probability of air-raids, it may be expedient in the near future to reduce the es ...

... have oeen weeks, ana certainly days, in which to retire in orderly fashion from a place so far from immediate danger. Now Flanders has shown that it is merely a matter of hours. A gap of a mile, a delay of three hours in closing that gap, and the result ...

... he said, coupled with the name of the waiter who has not been near this end of the table all evening. During the evacuation of Flanders ten captured Jerries had to be released. When they got back an officer questioned how they were caught. We were out ...

... Gradual evacuation of one system after another on the Somme Period Twelve Months 1917 BRITISH Renewed offensive on the Ancre Pursuit of retreating enemy by cavalry and light arms. Open warfare partially restored Capture of Artois and Flanders ridges Partial ...

... observers covered and reported every move. It was work they had learned on manoeuvres in Germany and had practised in Poland and Flanders and the Low Countries. They were the cog that co-ordinated the movements of the vast invasion machine. They kept the ground ...

... Denijn, master-carillonneur of Flanders. Jef Denijn died a month ago, fortunately leaving some pupils, one English. We have looked vainly for any tribute to his genius by Auntie T imes. No real bell-music exists outside Flanders, where the Flemings built their ...

... altogether. Hope it's not an omen. Meanwhile well, we've been going pretty thoroughly through the mill, haven't we The Gallinnli evacuation was a nnwder in jam, certainly, because of the wonderful way they did it. But with it we had to digest that so belated and ...

... bring home to Scotland the grim meaning of territorially localised casualties. All through the campaign it fought till the evacuation then through the fighting in the Syrian desert to the gates of Gaza, where it must suffer bitterly in two abortive attacks ...

... imminent. Evacuation plans, for the South Coast, were discussed. Bad news began to come in early the British expeditionary force, under the Duke of York, was nearly cut off in Flanders in 1794 there was carried out, however, a masterly evacuation from Dunkirk ...

... succeeding years have shown, was maintained and amplified with ever-increasing strength and fervour. Within a few months of the evacuation of Anzac, the Australian divisions were in France pitted against some of the best troops that the Germans could oppose to ...

... best qualities of free, true Britons. In the dark days in Gallipoli in the months of weary trench warfare amid the mud of Flanders in the assaulting set pieces of the costly mid-war period and latterly in the more stirring episodes of open attack, their ...