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The Dunkirk Operations

... The Dunkirk Operations Acting-Flight-Lieutenant John Tcrenca Webster, who receives the D.F.C., is the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Webster, of The Boulevard. Grassendale, Liverpool. He has led his flight in innumerable offensive patrols during the ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 171 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COMMUNIQUE ON DUNKIRK

... COMMUNIQUE ON DUNKIRK Last night's French war communique Sl^, The _ embarkation of Allied troops from Dunkirk was completed to-day in co„Torm y with the pre-arranged plan. Until the last moment, first in the suburbs and then in the town itself, from ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OF DUNKIRK FIGHTING

... men whose self-sacrifice has turned disaster into triumph. CLALM TO HAVE ENTERED DUNKIRK BEBErN, Tuesday. To-day’s official German communique says:— “The fighting for Dunkirk is nearing its end. Our troops penetrated into the and took the Louis fort from ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 821 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRAVERY AT DUNKIRK

... in France until the e v ac u a t ion from Dunkirk. Mrs. Renshaw told the Echo to-day that she had no idea what brave action had earned her husband the award, but she believed that it was for something at Dunkirk. L,/Cpl. Renshaw. wrote and asked him what ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 184 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Strain Of Dunkirk

... Strain Of Dunkirk F VENTUALLY. after scrutiny of my pass by several less bloodtnirbty guards than our L.D.V.. I arrive at headquarters of the station and am ushered into the holy of hol:es of the station commander. He starts talking of the work In general ...

Published: Sunday 21 July 1940
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 83 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EPIC

... DUNKIRK EPIC SMALL band of junior officers working in a secret control room known as the “dynamo room” at a naval base on the south-east coast of England helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than 335,000 officers and men of the Allied forces ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 136 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Supplies to Dunkirk

... Supplies to Dunkirk THE French and British troops that are fighting in Northern France are maintaining with a heroism worthy of their traditions a struggle of excep- tional intensity For a fortnight past they have been fighting battle separated from the ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 396 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Dunkirk Epic

... The Dunkirk Epic How different, indeed, how unique, that case of Britain is, is forcibly illustrated by the most astounding incident of the whole war. I refer to the escape of the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. The significance of this most memorable ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CALAIS TO DUNKIRK

... CALAIS TO DUNKIRK Throughout the night and early this morning British bombers made extensive attacks on the French Channel ports. The attacks stretched for miles. The flashes of the exploding shells were easily seen stretching from Calais to Dunkirk, and the ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 395 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK AWARDS

... DUNKIRK AWARDS Six hundred and eighty-eight names. Tanging from Vice-Admirals to deck hands, are announced in a London Gazette list of honours and awards for the Dunkirk withdrawal. This is the second list. A short one was announced June for good services ...

Published: Monday 19 August 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 54 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK GENERAL

... DUNKIRK GENERAL Major-General H R. e l * an '? e j' officer to whom Lord Gort handed over command of the remaining troops at Dunkirk when ne returned to n.nglana, has been promoted Lieut.-Genera-. General Alexander, who' is. forty-eight, was one the youngest ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CIVILIANS AT DUNKIRK

... CIVILIANS AT DUNKIRK. When the question of pension or compensation arises it is proposed to deal with the cases of civilians who were killed or wounded in evacuating the B.E.P. from Dunkirk as if they were naval auxiliary personnel. All the volunteers ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Dover Express
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 7 | Tags: none