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THE HOME FRONT

... THE HOME FRONT. WHAT'S THE HURRY, GEORGE? YOU'D THINK WE WERE AT DUNKIRK! DRAWN IIY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 17 | Page: 7 | Tags: Illustrations 

More Fragments from France

... Bruce Bairnsfather Blimey, are you still 'ere, mate Thought you was filled with concrete and sunk, to block up the 'arbour at Dunkirk (Answer censored) By Bruce Bairnsfather ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 33 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... Pakenham- Walsh was formerly C.R.E. in the B.E.F., and the above portrait was painted shortly after the conclusion of the Dunkirk operation. The artist is also a Sapper and was likewise engaged in the recent strenuous fighting on the other side of the ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 93 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... commanded our armies in France and Belgium in the operations which terminated in the magni ficent rearguard movements on Dunkirk, and the saving of the larger part of a force which, by all the rules of war, was doomed. Captain Seago, the artist, is now ...

Published: Wednesday 07 August 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 135 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

BRITAIN'S DESTROYER OF THE AIR: The Wonderful New Defiant--The First Published Details of Her Aerial Combat Tactics

... misrepresented as has the Defiant, the first Squadron of which made such a sensational fighting debut in the fighting over the Dunkirk beaches. Performance figures have not been disclosed, but she is undoubtedly the fastest machine in the world of her class ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 246 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

CHRISTMAS CHARITIES: The British Prisoners of War Fund

... War Fund. THIS Fund aids our men who were taken prisoners by tens of thousands in France. They were fighting to cover the Dunkirk retreat, or they were surrounded and overcome later on their way to Western France. There are also airmen to whom we owe ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 530 | Page: 2 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Romance of Sheridan and Miss Linley

... impression that the lovely young lady in distress was a rich heiress, with great expec tations. The adventurous couple reached Dunkirk, and went through a secret marriage at Calais, after which Miss Linley insisted upon retiring to a convent for a period Her ...

Published: Wednesday 20 November 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 851 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By . . .: One Thing and Another

... shortly, had just returned from Dunkirk (the ruinous state of which he enormously exag gerated, as any returned soldier can tell you), and his line of talk was that since only a fraction of the Luftwaffe was employed at Dunkirk, what Great Britain can look ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1864 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations 

Please forward overseas

... Charles again, and returned to Barchester Towers. And you 'd hardly think he had been worrying ceaselessly about a son at Dunkirk, would you But he had. Bill has been home four days now. The first three he spent sleeping, but on the fourth he went down ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 900 | Page: 6 | Tags: Illustrations 

EXPORT TRADE: Britain's Wealth, streams out to all the World--Submarines or not

... Dockland's private, unbowd- lerised opinion of himself and his insane ambitions. My instant thought was A race who can accept the Dunkirk evacuation in this spirit is impossible to defeat. It can be knocked over the ropes time after time, but, no matter what ...