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PRAYERS FOR DELIVERANCE

... PRAYERS FOR DELIVERANCE Two Caldecote soldiers, evacuated with other members of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. attended Caldecole Parish Church on Sunday, when special prayers were offered for their deliverance. Tney were Stanley Price of 26 Council Collages ...

A PRISONER OF WAR

... where he states that food and clothing are more satisfactory. He was wounded while assisting the cover of the retreat from Dunkirk. POTATO PRODUCTION IN BEDFORDSHIRE COUNTY CAN BEAT ITS 1918 ■MI _^^^■wiiiß ...

PODINGTON

... several years and whose home was at Sturminster Marshall in Dorsetshire, has been reported missing in the evacuation from Dunkirk. He is nephew of Mr. Ray Brown. ...

MY FIRST WAR

... Belgian people and of the British and Allied soldiers than any military or political document I have read about Flanders and Dunkirk. M H F. R. HOCKLIFFE NEW A SECONDHAND BOOKSELLERS HIGH STREET. BEDFORD ...

STEVINGTON

... from their son. Pte.« George Curtis. He had been missing since 18lh May. During the heavy fighting before the retreat to Dunkirk he was severely wounded in the chest and now satisfactorily. He is prisoner war Germany. ...

ACTIVE SERVICE

... Biddenham. Until recently his parents lived in China. Second-Lieut. Sanford had served in France. He was in the evacuation from Dunkirk and escaped without injury. His death took place on Saturday the result of an accident. ...

BEDFORD DIVISION SESSIONS

... Defendant said that he knew the value the black-out as he had fought with the B E.F. in Flanders and had spent five days at Dunkirk. The Chairman said that the Bench appreciated that defendant had done his duty to his country and added that the War Reserve ...

BACK FROM FLANDERS

... bridge , he said. soon as they set foot on it up it went.” For nearly four days he and his unit waited on the beaches of Dunkirk to be taken off. and every day they were subjected to heavy bombing. The bombing was very haphazard he said. and the casualties ...

COLMWORTH ADOPTING A SHIP

... party who meet weekly for exercises. There is room for more. Many hands make light the ‘task. Remember “The Little Ships” of Dunkirk. ...

NO NEWS

... George Herbert Lynch of Shortstown. who was then on a transport boat which is believed to have been bombed when leaving Dunkirk. He is the second son of Mrs. Lynch. 3 King Street. Kempston. and of the late Corporal A. Lynch. He has a wife and one son ...

FLITWICK

... for ten years a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade and Royal Naval Auxiliary Sick Berth Staff, also look part in the Dunkirk evacuation in the same ship. Jiir I ...

GUNS SENT BACK

... morning, when I withdrew the Regiment, and the canal was taken later that morning from the French.” During the retreat from Dunkirk fifthcolumn activity was so rife that Lieut.- Col. Comerford was constantly presented with problems. But the Regiment reached ...