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DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK The Official Story of the Greatest Naval Exploit In History rHILE the withdrawal of men of the B.E.F. and * French troops from Northern France is still going on, the Admiralty issued a communique last night which vividly reveals the magnitude ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 49 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

“TO DUNKIRK”

... “TO DUNKIRK” The battalion lay down and slept with rifles and Brun guns by their sides, expecting to wake and fight where they stood. Here next morning, 7.15. orders came to proceed to Dunkirk. Dunkirk w'as some 50 miles as the crow flies. The terrain ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 251 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Killed at Dunkirk

... Killed at Dunkirk Mr. and Mrs. Highfleld Estate! son, Gunner T. H. Weaver has been reported fa. killed in action r while engaged in Dunkirk rearguard action. gunner weaver Officially Reported Missing Fusilier Peter Dunn (36), of 4, William Street, Newcastle ...

Published: Tuesday 13 August 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Evacuation Coes On 'Vk'-f* ave cont 'oued uninterruotedlv 'k/ fk ltl drawa, °f their troops from Dunkirk the tißhting there has reached a ferocity unparalleled in p a ris PreSent Campaign accord 'ng to reports reaching The Germans have been attacking ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 535 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK Mr. Siddins served as a chaplain with the B.E.F from last January to the evacuation irom Dunkirk. The kind of man he is may be gathered from the number of times he did not board a boat that would have carried him away from the shelled, bombed ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Wounded at Dunkirk

... Wounded at Dunkirk Mrs. Brown, of Railway Cottages, Twlzel Lane, County Durham, has been notified by the War Department that her husband, Albert, aged 28. has been admitted to hospital suffering with gunshot wounds received while fighting at Dunkirk with the ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 376 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

No “Second Dunkirk”

... No “Second Dunkirk” We will provide the money for them. There will not a second Dunkirk.” The Mayor read a telegram of encouragement from Sir Kingsley Wood (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and mentioned the receipt of a cheque for £6 6s. from 50 scholars ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 302 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HERO

... DUNKIRK HERO After the Armistice Darlan had charge of the French gunboats that controlled the Rhine. Two years later became Commander-in-Chicf in the Par East—his third commission in those waters. He then served as Chef de Cabinet to the Minister of Marine ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 131 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Democracy

... Dunkirk Democracy Using the title rather than the content of a recent note on “Ingratitude” as a peg on which to hang his story, B C.,” of Newblggin, recounts this of a Tyneside “ Temporary Skipper who, in three dangerous trips, evacuated 750 soldiers ...

Published: Monday 23 September 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOUGHT AT DUNKIRK

... FOUGHT AT DUNKIRK Acting-Flight Lieutenant John Terrance Webster, who led his flight in innumerable offensive patrols during the latter part of the Dunkirk operations and during the intensive air fighting over the English Channel and Dover area in protection ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EPIC

... DUNKIRK EPIC Captain Hedley, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, who performed many courageous deeds in connection with the embarkation of troops at Dunkirk, and 2nd Lieut. George Anderson. 2nd Lieut. Alexander Ross and 2nd Lieut. Artlaur Leinster, of the ...

Published: Thursday 08 August 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 5 | Tags: none