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DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK The coxswain: and; motor mechanic of the ' Hythe lifeboat, who did not obey a request by the naval authorities at Dover to assist in the evacuation of the B.E.Q. from Dunkirk. have been dismissed from,. :the .Lifeboat Service. A report issued ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Official notification has been received Councillor R. B. Colbourne, of Warwick, that his son, Capt. Jack Herbert Colbourne, R.E.. was killed during the evacuation of the troops from Dunkirk, Capt. Colbourne was engineer by profession. In September ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK The excellent work accomplished by the Salvation Army in this direction is indicated by the fact that at Dunkirk their canteens gave away 80,000 cups of tea and coffee, in addition to thousands of pies, cakes, and sandwiches, in four days. ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

In the Dunkirk Area

... the Dunkirk Area The Trench military spokesman announced to-day that in the Dunkirk area the embarkation troops was still being actively carried out at normal speed despite new difficulties. During the past twenty-four hours the enemy has brought up heavy ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK BEAKER

... DUNKIRK BEAKER A silver gilt beaker bearing the arms of the Goldsmiths’ Company and presented by them on condition the buyer hands the beaker to the Admiralty for the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, as a memorial to the Navy’s exploits at Dunkirk ...

Published: Tuesday 16 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK

... THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK In this tale of nisaster there earns a moment when imminent defeat stared the British Empire in the face. lhat was the time when the retreating Army was left Isolated owing to King Leopold's ignominious order to the Belgian troops ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1940
Newspaper: Rugeley Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 465 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SIDELIGHT ON DUNKIRK

... SIDELIGHT ON DUNKIRK An interesting sidelight on the extent of the demands on Red Cross funds is the revelation that during the few days of the Dunkirk evacuation the Red Cross spent no less than £30,030 to meet the immediate needs of sick and wounded ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Rugeley Times
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK ECHO

... DUNKIRK ECHO Capt. J. G. Bickford was awarded the D.S.O. last month for good services in the withdrawal from the Dunkirk beaches. On 22 December last year, for successful actions against enemy submarines while in command of H.M.S. Express, Capt. Bickford ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 57 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK

... THE MIRACLE DUNKIRK Holy Trinity Church. Coventry, Evcn- Bono was kept aa a special act of thaiiksoiviny for the evacuation of the men of the fiJvC. The Viear (the Tov. (I. W. Clitheroe), preaching from the Psalm, referred the National Day Intercession ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 271 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FELL AT DUNKIRK

... FELL AT DUNKIRK News has just been received that Sergeant Hugh Harpur. of the Royal Engineers, ouly sou of Mr. and Mrs. Walter N. llarpur, of Leslie Road, Streetly, has been killed in action at Dunkirk, his country’s service. He was hist 21 years age ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Walsall Observer
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 92 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

In Dunkirk Harbour

... In Dunkirk Harbour The initiative and enterprise by which hundreds of thousands of men were taken from the open beaches near Dunkirk in every conceivable kind of small craft has appealed to public imagination. That astonishing side of the great evacuation ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK SOLDIER

... DUNKIRK SOLDIER ACCUSED OF WIFE’S ...

Published: Thursday 31 October 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 5 | Page: 6 | Tags: none