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ONE SHOT BAGS TWO PLANES

... is appointed to the 0.8. E. (civil division), and Second Officer Flack and Gunner H. . Donald are commended. DUNKIRK GALLANTRY. Gallantrv Dunkirk has earned the Of, E for Captain Richard Thomas, of the steamer Worthtown, of London, and the medal of the ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 434 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OVER FOUR-FIFTHS OF B.E.F SAVED

... district around the fortified area Dunkirk. The Germans are also suffering losses the hands of the Allied troops defending the outskirts and those continuing to resist with the utmost vigour at points to the southwest. of Dunkirk. One hundred French warships ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1793 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRENCH RETAKE PART OF ABBEVILLE

... Allied navies were carrying on with their stupendous and successful task of withdrawing ' the B.E.F. and French armies from Dunkirk, still held and now almost ringed by protective flooding. Thousands more B.E.F. men continued to arrive safely in Britain ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 784 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH COLLIER SINKS; 34 SAVED

... BRITISH COLLIER SINKS; 34 SAVED The British collier Brighton sank off Dunkirk following an explosion yesterday. The 34 members of the crew were saved motor launch. Ten members of the crew were injured. ...

Published: Wednesday 08 May 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RUGBY STAR A PRISONER

... PRISONER Lieut. J. W. S. Irwin, R.A.M.C., the Irish rugby internationalist, who was reported missing after the evacuation from Dunkirk, is prisoner of war in Germany. Irwin played against England and Scotland in 1938 and 1939 and against Wales in 1939. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRITISH AID FRENCH IN NEW BATTLE

... and 500,000 casualties. About 80 divisions were used against the Allies in the battle which ended with the evacuation of Dunkirk. Out of these there were about ten armoured and five motorised divisions, all of which were heavily engaged, and all of which ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 544 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PLACE RIDDLED WITH SPIES

... camp near Dunkirk. An officer who has just returned London speaks of the stunning effect'' of the air bombardment. Although he went through the last war points out that it was far greater than anything could ever imagine. The bombing Dunkirk was quite ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 308 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNFERMLINE NAVYMIN GAINS AWARD

... NAVYMIN GAINS AWARD The D.S.M. hftS drt nV ee J room Artificer i,ajl eS - f whose home is . t 1 line. l °' Award has been Dunkirk evacuatio^-^^l ...

Published: Monday 09 September 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 31 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GERMANS CLAIM NIEUPORT

... Nieuport and the coast to the north-west of it are in German hands. Adinkerke, west of Furnes. and Ghyvelde, six miles east of Dunkirk, have been taken. The number of prisoners and the amount of booty also considerably increased Saturday. Two hundred guns of ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 266 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

125 CIVILIANS KILLED IN HELPING B.E.F

... Admiralty, told the Commons yesterday that 125 civilians were killed and 81 wounded in aiding the navy in the evacuation from Dunkirk. Of these four killed and two wounded were civilian volunteers, the remainder being regular merchant seamen. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FIFE MAN’S NEPHEW ON LOST WARSHIP

... FIFE MAN’S NEPHEW ON LOST WARSHIP Lieut,.-Commander F. B. Prourffoot, the minesweeper H.M.S. Skipjack, lost the Dunkirk evacuation, was a nephew Mr William Proudfoot, civil engineer. Kirkcaldy. belonged to Oxford, and was son of Col. G. F. Proudfoot, ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 4 | Tags: none