A SHIPPING NOTABLE

... last war with the Territorial Army, serving in Gallipoli from the Suvla Bay landing to the evacuation, and afterwards in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, France, and Flanders. He was awarded the French Medaille D’Honneur with bar, as we say in English, by the President ...

Published: Tuesday 02 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 249 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICE SUfERINTENDENT'S RETIREMENT PRESENTATIONS TO MR. 11. P. LILBURN

... until demobiliseul in February. 1919. He served in Oallipoli from the Bay landing to the evacuation and afterwards in Egypt. Lib3a, Palestine. France anti Flanders. He awarded the French Medaille D'Honiteur and also received tbe Mibtoury Medal for bravery ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE LONDONDERRY SENTINEL. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 4. 1940

... seasonably reminded his colleagues, within a short distance of Baris. British forces were fighting many fronts, ranging from Flanders to Mesopotamia, German East Africa, and the Cameroons. We had suffered severely in naval warfare. The Amphion, the Speedy ...

Published: Thursday 04 January 1940
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 3004 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MR. N. P. LILBURN

... demobilised in February, 1919. He served in Gallipoli from the Sulva Bay landing to the evacuation and afterwards in Egypt, Libya, Palestine. France and Flanders. }le was awarded the French Medallle D'ilonneur and also received the Military Medal for ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 156 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

His Duty to be a Parasite

... be better. he said, to have Hitler at 10 Downing Street, than another 12,000,000 men dead in Flanders. The young man. George Stedman, a Londoner evacuated to Kelso, said he had a friend who took as much sugar in his tea as he could stand in an effort ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 299 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Poppies Grow

... duel, the famous Cloth Hall and Cathedral being Iffk in ruins. Lord Roberta died while on a visit to the British troops in Flanders. By the third week of the month the extreme cold and the heavy snowstorms at the front had brought operations to a standstill ...

Published: Saturday 03 February 1940
Newspaper: Coatbridge Leader
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2560 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON LETTER

... referred on two tinoccasions to the hardships which th war has brought to many London ! and boarding house keepers ov-nT, evacuation and other causes, a of hotels and boarding houses were prosperous a few months a?o now almost deserted and the” r, prietors ...

Published: Monday 05 February 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CURRENT EVENTS

... trench warfare is often of little value as we proved in our many attempts to break through the German lines in France and Flanders in the last war. The defenders can prepare fresh positions in the rear almost as fast as those in front are occupied. The ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1063 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Our London Letter

... Ely, in which year, and after holding a curacy at Bedford, he became an Army chaplain. He served during the Great War in Flanders and France, being mentioned in dispatches, and became chaplain of the Royal Air Force in 1918. He was senior chaplain in ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1041 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Payments to Unmarried Employees in H.M. Forces. 19 1 4-2 1 Relief Fund Balance

... Fisher, Messrs. C. D. Albion, J. J. Bone. It. Blau:lett, D. F. Burlingham, A. P. Burton. A. L. Carpenter, R. G. Erringion, H. Flanders, T. A. Frost, H. Ives, J. Knape, J. T. Neave, W. J. Panton, and J. Whitmore. with the Town Clerk tDinr. Frank G. Reeves) ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1940
Newspaper: Lynn Advertiser
County: Norfolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 1995 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FINNS ABANDON ISLAND FORTRESSES

... When , with other journalists , I visited the place yesterday its black shell of desolation was like the broken towns of Flanders and Northern France after 1914 . The destruction wrought on Viipuri is greater than anything done even in Madrid , Alicante ...

Published: Tuesday 27 February 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1166 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CARRYING ON:

... Emperor. In memorable speech he said : I admit I am neither as young nor in such good health as when I went to fight in France, Flanders and Egypt, a quarter of a century ago, but no Rajput is ever too old to fight.” “Alien Sassenachs JYJAKING part of north ...

Published: Thursday 29 February 1940
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 356 | Page: 4 | Tags: none