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Forfar Dispatch

W. L. Doig & Son

... book is cheap at a shilling if only for its tonic effect. Something we all know of the epic story of the evacuation from Dunkirk. Much less do most of us realise the not less heroic exploits of the B. E. F. which made that epic possible. There are great ...

Published: Thursday 21 November 1940
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

JOHN A. CLARK

... the regular air force in every phase of the air warin home defence, in offensive patrols over the Low Countries, above the Dunkirk beaches, and more recently in the big air battles over the English Channel. One Auxiliary squadron, equipped with 'furricane ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1940
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Fl ONE WHO KNOWS THEM

... with his other friends in Forfar, rejoice to learn that Sergeant William Kemp, R.A.S.C., who was posted missing before the Dunkirk evacuation, is now reported a prisoner of war. Willie, who before joining up was on the Perth staff of the Dundee Courier ...

Published: Thursday 15 August 1940
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1423 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CABBAGE PLANTS

... ! Mind my hat ! \Voof ! Scared? Multiply this by fifty, add bombs and machine gun-fire, imagine yourself on the beach at Dunkirk, and take your hat off to the B.E.F. Things have been happening on the ground, too. Detachments of enemy infantry have crept ...

Published: Thursday 22 August 1940
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1435 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

the iDtummet

... Drummer has in these last days been meeting various Forfar lads home on a short leave after their miraculous getaway from .Dunkirk. Several of them are recovering from slight wounds, but all are glad to be here for a breath o' Farfar air. Amongst the missing ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1499 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CONCERT

... Writing of Ration Books On June 4, following the French debacle and the immortal feat of evacuation by the little ships from Dunkirk, Mrs James Stirling, 9 Victoria Street, received from the War Office the grim intimation that her brother, Signaller John ...

Published: Thursday 12 December 1940
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2045 | Page: 2 | Tags: none