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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

BROTHERS PARTED AT DUNKIRK

... BROTHERS PARTED AT DUNKIRK ONE CAME HOME Other Now Reported to be In the evacuation from Dunkirk two Leeds brothers, Jack and William Dent, who were regulars In the Highland Light Infantry, were detailed fdr different duties, and became separated. William ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ITALIANS' DUNKIRK LIKELY

... ITALIANS' DUNKIRK LIKELY (By Commander Pursey) THE further Greek and R.A.F. success in Albania have not only added to the chaos of the Italiam military retreat, but created additional difficulties with regard to their overseas supplies —the successful ...

PISTOL FROM DUNKIRK

... PISTOL FROM DUNKIRK Halifax Man in Trouble in Curious Way Leslie Stabler cf Wilson Road. King Cross. Hallftt, pleaded guilty In Leeds, to-day. to being possession automatic pistol without certificate. Mr. W. Bradley (Town Clerk's Department). prosecuting ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK MEDAL?

... A DUNKIRK MEDAL? The War Office does not know of any grounds for the statement printed a London newspaper that & Dunkirk Medal to be awarded to soldiers who served Prance between September, 1939, and the collapse Prance. Such a medal (says a writer In ...

Published: Tuesday 29 October 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK TRAGEDY

... A DUNKIRK TRAGEDY Murder Charge Against Wife of Missing Man The wife of a Sheffield soldier who has been missing since the battle of Dunkirk was charged Sheffield today with the murder of her 11-weekold son, and was committed for trial the West Riding ...

Published: Monday 12 August 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 224 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK APPEAL RESPONSE

... DUNKIRK APPEAL RESPONSE. - - In answer to an urgent appeal tor garments for men returned from Dunkirk. i the committee supplied 68 garments and I distributed 25 pairs of socks to men ' billeted in Yorkshire. A urt her parcel I of comforts was sent to ...

Published: Tuesday 15 October 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 306 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BACK FROM DUNKIRK

... BACK FROM DUNKIRK M.P. Allege* Thousands Unable to Visit Homes Mr. A. Sloan (Lab., Ayr and Bute) to ask the Secretary for War next Tuesday whether he is aware M that men of the British Expeditionary Force who arrived in England from Dunkirk were not ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none