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Bombed for Ten Hours Waiting Troopship for England Arbroath Provost’s Son Home Captain David Chapel, son oi ..

... William Chapel and Lady Chapel. Caenlnehan. \va* one men who were under constant aerial bombardment hy fierinan warplanes at Dunkirk on Monday while they were waiting to he taken hoard troopship for England. Captain Chapel, who in the Royal \rtillery. attached ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 620 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

FIFTY YEARS AGO

... this Armv is resisting fiercely, and trying to make up for its inferiority in numbers by narrowing its front. The port of Dunkirk is an entrenched camp, rtrnilv held and supported by the heavy guns of the Fleet. night it was stated that in view of the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 319 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MONDAY

... columni>ts rounded up i- countrv. including well-known uncccl that the last of the Brill French troops had been evactr.iin Dunkirk. Mr Churchill il tliat men. had been i;.K.F. casualties, killed, musing were over was much less than latest scheme tor receiving ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

War’s Latest Phases

... Lan R. Hunter, Tyneside Scottish, is prisoner of war. word had been heard Sec.-Lieut. Hunter since some time before the Dunkirk evacuation. Educated Arbroath School, he was employed in the British Linen Bank prior to the outbreak war. When last spring ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A detachment of the Fleet Air Arm who attended the funeral on Saturday of the two Nazi airmen who were killed ..

... gathered round the kitchen range ami sat quiet for a few minutes, listening. Then wee Sandy brightened up. “When you think Dunkirk you’ll no* mind waitin’ till next year for the summer holiday. Dad.” “That’s right enough. “ said Mother. Hack the works next ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The Burghs M.P,

... village institution. Played Its Part. We have not heard the end of the wonderful things that were done in the evacuation of Dunkirk, not by any means. And one most interesting side-light given in the story of the part played by the N .M.C.A.. in receiving ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Cpl.' GEORGE HIRST

... “Listen me moment. Major Graham, before do mvself in.” and then started that he considered he had not been treated properly. On Dunkirk Beach. remepibered the Major’s saying “ hor God’s sake put that .revolver away.” There was struggle in which the gun was ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1026 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Saturday—An Emblem

... friend knew intimately much of the ground that figured in the great retreat that will associated always with the name of Dunkirk. He had spent quite a lengthy period during the war and after it at one of the places that had been in to-day’s news. “I bad ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TH \T V. 1

... maids. THAT a H.K.F. man lionu* on leave says has one source consolation. He had a rough time, hut in the evacuation of Dunkirk learned to swim. • THAT the war being pursued with grim determination. Civil servants arc actually working a minimum of 48 ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 528 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

THURSDAY

... Guerre Private David K S. Wyllie, Royal Tank Corps, who i> presently in hospital in England with a shrapnel wound received at Dunkirk, has been awarded and presented with the Croix de Guerre. Twenty-four years age. he son the late Mr I). Wyllie. and grandson ...

Published: Friday 26 July 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 583 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Private W. D. S. Ogilvic

... afterwards. Comrades Private Ogilvie, who arc now in this country, have uyitten to his home staling that they last saw him at Dunkirk. Wetthavcn Man Killed. Mrs lolly, Wcsthaven, Carnoustie, has been notified that her husband. Sergeant Stanley Duncan Jolly ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 649 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SUNDAY,

... eallaniry that has never been sur- the annals of the British Anny.'* French naval forces firmly held the fortified are i of Dunkirk open for the retreating troops.' Here land and naval planes are performing magnificent service. Leopold lias returned to Ids ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 607 | Page: 9 | Tags: none