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... threatened. One worker described the conditions as like Flanders during the War. Rain which set In last night helped to till the cuttings. Many more people prepared to leave their homes, and farmers evacuated their cattle. The ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1937
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NEWS ITEMS

... at Antwerp. D'Annunzio has ordered hie legionaries to evacuate Port Baron, says a Central been meese4te from Rome. It is announced, say the E Paris, that the Last Brtisi leave France and Flanders tember. Exchange rates yesterday were: Paris 47.45--4710; ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1921
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 123 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE OBSERVER, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940

... THE OBSERVER, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940 HULLO MIDDLETON ! [By BROADCASTER] Good News The ghastly yet glorious evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders must have stirred every parish in the British Isles, for scarcely a single parish can exist which had not ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

READERS' VIEWS

... SCHOOL’S L Horsham men, serving with the Royal t, have arrived safely back Sussex after many gruelling experiences Flanders and a hazardous evacuation, em- barkation and crossing Dunkirk to an port. Now they are at various mili- tary camps “somewhere in England ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: West Sussex County Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 340 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Scrap* of paper

... ended with this quotation. * If ve faith with us who die we shall not sleep. though poppies grow in Flanders fields ” Mrs A. Halls, one of those evacuated said “| demand the right tor mv sens to visit. their father’s grave. and I demand that right for mvself ...

Published: Thursday 11 March 1948
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK: TARGET WAS A SEVENTH OF FINAL RESULT

... DUNKIRK: TARGET WAS A SEVENTH OF FINAL RESULT THE greatest sea-borne evacuation of an army in historythatt of Dunkirk in 1915—resulted in the rescue of more than seven times as many men u it had been facially aimed at saving. The report of the late Admiral ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 863 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SECOND YEAR VERY DIFFERENT

... through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand account of itself in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King LEOPOLD and the German break through on the other flank at Sedan. it fought ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1940
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WHAT OUR READERS THINK THE MARGARETS' FUND [To The Editor] SLR,—I am anxious to secure the support of

... of bringing this appeal to their knowledge am seeking the hospitality of your columns. In the withdrawal from France and Flanders, the Y.M.C.A. sustained losses of huts and equipment totalling some £70,000, whilst enemy action has recently made headquarters ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1940
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 721 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GAUNTLET OF SNIPERS

... by the groom. Rev, Arthur ‘King, great-uncle of the bride Lieutenant Willcocks, who has just re- turned from Flanders, having been evacuated from Dunkirk, is well known as an amateur for Horsham and for the R.A, against the Engineers at Lords. He was ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: West Sussex County Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 761 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MUSICIANS UNION

... found employment for some seven hundred of their , but that since then , and more particularly since the withdrawal from Flanders , E . N . S . A . had not been able to find employment for more than one band , partly no doubt becau . se of the War Office ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1940
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1405 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ACTORS AND THE WAR

... CJompany , 3 li . War . Regiin « nt , . Barracks , , Isks of Wight , for props , and wigs of any sort for or friends in Flanders and for concerts while tl * ey are . He says that he has had numerous letters he has been back for such article he would ...

Published: Thursday 16 March 1916
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1656 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Broadley Bros

... NovumOrr. He was last se'D 10 German trench which occupied for period and were subsequently forced for the time being to evacuate. Hence, it is quite possible that he may one day be returned prisoner of war in Germsn hands, and I very much hope that such ...

Published: Saturday 08 December 1917
Newspaper: West Sussex County Times
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 828 | Page: 3 | Tags: none