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Dunkirk Rescue

... Dunkirk Rescue D.S.M. FOR SAILOR OF H.M.S. PEMBROKE A sailor who saved the lives of several soldiers of the sth Batt. King's Own Royal Regiment buried in the debris of a bombed house in Dunkirk is to receive the Distinguished Service Medal. He is Able-Seaman ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Shambles

... Dunkirk Shambles SELBY SOLDIERS ON NAZI RUTHLESSNESS Two Selby soldiers have described their experiences in the battle for the ports, one being engaged in the evacuation of Boulogne and the other in the evacuation of Dunkirk. Lance-Corporal George William ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... KILLED AT DUNKIRK SON OF WELL-KNOWN COTTINGHAM MAN The parents of Troop-Sergeant- Major Thomas Wyatt Arbon, of Northgate. Cottingham, have received official notification of his death while on active service Mr C. H. Arbon, his father, was clerk to the ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Bombarded by Navy

... Dunkirk Bombarded by Navy THE Admiralty issued the following communique last night:— A naval bombardment of the port of Dunkirk was carried out by our forces last night. Fires were seen to have been caused, and it is considered that much damage resulted ...

Published: Thursday 17 October 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MASEFIELD TO WRITE ON DUNKIRK

... MASEFIELD TO WRITE ON DUNKIRK John Masefield, the Poet Laureate, is writing a book about the miracle of Dunkirk. He has been visiting the ports of Southern England and talking to officers and men of the Navy who took part in the evacuation. Mr Masefield ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LAST OUT OF DUNKIRK

... LAST OUT OF DUNKIRK Brigadiers Desperate Swim for Life ALREADY many stories have been recounted on the daring and resource of the men of the B.E.F. in their evacuation of Dunkirk. All tell of courage and fortitude in face of withering fire, bombing of ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 624 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LIFEBOATS' PART AT DUNKIRK

... LIFEBOATS' PART AT DUNKIRK The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has told the Ministry of Shipping that it does not wish the Government nay any of the cost to the Institution of sSding its lifeboats tc> he p the evacuation of the B.E.F. irom D T h k ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TOOK COMMAND AT DUNKIRK

... TOOK COMMAND AT DUNKIRK Major-General H. R. Alexander Relieved Lord Gort The less senior officer to whom Lord Gort handed over command of remaining troops at Dunkirk when he returned to England last Saturday wa Major-General H. R. Alexander. General ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Men from Dunkirk

... Men from Dunkirk A. Sloan (Lab., Ayr and Bute) is to ask the Secretary for War next Tuesday whether he is aware that men of the British Expeditionary Force who arrived in England from Dunkirk were not supplied with railway vouchers to visit their homes ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Fighting at Peak of Ferocity

... Dunkirk Fighting at Peak of Ferocity Jt Embarkation of Allied forces Goes Steadily On ceaseless difficulties caused by enemy pressure Nation went on actively in the Dunkirk region night, says to-day s French communique. British and French infantry and ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 380 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HullSailor Missing After Dunkirk

... HullSailor Missing After Dunkirk d, hil »an, whose ship was u ans P°rting men of the »s Pic evacuation of ed missing, believed V. i j * to this effect has a.vton. 30. of 7. The rd -avenue. Hull, who Hhe Ro - val Navy for I aft* t of the service a v the ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Heaviest Week Since Dunkirk

... Heaviest Week Since Dunkirk BRITAIN'S SHIPPING LOSSES THE Admiralty announced to-day that British mercantile losses for the week ended October 20-21 were 32 ships, of a total tonnage of 146,528. while Allied losses were seven ships, of 24,686 tons; and ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 6 | Tags: none