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SAFE FROM DUNKIRK

... SAFE FROM DUNKIRK. Second-Lt. S. G, Cotton, RE.. formerly of Walton, an engineering assistant in the City Engineer's Department. is now known to safe in England. Cpl. 'lhomas 'Jenson, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. I'. Henson, 57, St. Martin'sstreet. has ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Peterborough Standard
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: | Words: 655 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED the recommendation General the Allied Armies, General Blanchard; Couimander the Armies the has been awarded the Grand Cross the Legion Honour, and General whose wise handling of the retreat Dun kirk resulted the saving of the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK CASUALTY

... A DUNKIRK CASUALTY Young Nottm. Trooper Succumbs To Wounds Intimation has been received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. George, of 51 Kirkby-street, Nottingham, that their youngest son, Kenneth, has died of wounds received during the evacuation from ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 118 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

REFUSED TO GO TO DUNKIRK

... direct to Dunkirk, were instrumental in saving many soldiers. The dismissed coxswain, H. Griggs, had been a member of the Hythe lifeboat crew for 38 years He was said at the time to have declared to an interviewer that he declined to go Dunkirk because ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK LIKE TOWN

... DUNKIRK LIKE TOWN AFTER EARTHQUAKE Dunkirk locked «■ if then had been earthquake. The town waa all atnaibed up and blazing fiercely. There were no civiliana to be aeen. Capt the Rev. Smith, who la attached to the R.A.M.C.. gave thla impression when ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Dunkirk ’‘Like a Dream”

... Dunkirk ’‘Like a Dream” Magnificent ’’ was a Nottingham private's description of bow the Royal Navy behaved at Dunkirk. Pto. Lowe, of 1 Tennyson-street was evacuated from Dunkirk under heavy air bombing. His wife is a daughter of Sam Staples, the old ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 109 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LAST OF GALLAN DUNKIRK LEAVE

... LAST OF GALLAN DUNKIRK LEAVE Allies Bomb German Industrial Centres In Great Reprisals Raid 'THE LAST OF THE GALLANT LAND AND NAVAL ■ FORCES DEFENDING DUNKIRK WERE REEMBARKED DURING MONDAY NIGHT, AND THE PORT HAS BEEN RENDERED UNUSABLE TO THE GERMANS. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 171 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CHARLES II SOLD DUNKIRK

... CHARLES II SOLD DUNKIRK Dunkirk, the battle for which will live in history as one of the most glorious British feats of arms, has already been destroyed ten times by enemy activity since it was founded in the seventh century. - • -- It has been through ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 150 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Escaped from Dunkirk

... Escaped from Dunkirk. Gunner Pickering was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Pickering, of Geneva-avenue, Lincoln. He was a pupil St Giles' School, and on leaving became apprenticed with William Wright and Son, builders, Lincoln, where his father Is employed ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Chronicle
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOUR -! FIFTHS OF FROM DUNKIRK

... Air Force. DUNKIRK ATTACK In the Dunkirk area the embarkation troops was still being actively carried out at normal speed, despite new difficulties. During the put 14 heurs the enemy has brought up heavy longrange artillery all round Dunkirk to cover the ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 727 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THEY PASSED THROUGH DUNKIRK

... THEY PASSED THROUGH DUNKIRK. Fine Discipline of Indian Troops. Sturdy Indian soldiers who passed through the flames of Dunkirk after marching for days. during which it seemed almost impossible that they could get away unscathed are now at a camping ground ...

A DUNKIRK VICTIM

... A DUNKIRK VICTIM body found on - FRENCH COAST BOSTON SOLDIER’S death Almost exactly two years after her marriage Mrs. Dorothy May Graves, of Witham-terrace. Boston, has been notified that the body of her husband. Private Harold Ernest Graves, has been ...

Published: Wednesday 04 December 1940
Newspaper: Boston Guardian
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 6 | Tags: none