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... stated: The German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by rising flood waters which Allied engineers have loosed over the Flanders plain, redoubled its efforts yesterday to cut off the French rearguard fighting its way to the coast. This foree —part of ...
... of the occasion when the King decorated their father. The deeds of heroism performed in connection with the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders have already resulted in records being made for recommendations for awards in some form or other. There will ...
... Channel, the people at the Admiralty had to sit down and think what eventualities might happen. BOULOGNE EVACUATION. He said that the evacuation Boulogne was done entirely by six destroyers, working from 5.30 p.m. until about a.m. They brought off 4.600 ...
... were heard on the outskirts of the city. Fighters went up to meet the attackers. MORE British and French soldiers evacuated from Flanders reached British ports to-day and shared a single hope. That was to get back to the battle zone and have another at ...
... sailor to look at, though soldier. In navy blue, borrowed, as was so much of the men's kit. to replace that lost In the evacuation, whose chum was obviously his natural complement, dark and sensitive, and doubtless supplying the wise caution that might ...
... s« the Nazis that they -ttc. man for L', more than match for them. number of French officers and men ..vo been tiKhtina in Flanders have jlso arrived in this country. TUNES is one raid. One soldier who had been through Kveral Intensive battle, which •he ...
... tremendous call to owners of seagoing craft —took part in the evacuation. Three destroyers—Basilisk, Keith, and Havant —have been sunk, and of more than 170 minor war vessels engaged in evacuation, have been lost. The R.A.F. continue to support the Allied ...
... Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station, since March. 1939. His second son, Sec-Lieut. Maxwell Lyon, was last month reported killed in Flanders. Vice-Adml. Geoffrey Layton was appointed Commander-in-Chief, China Station, last April. Lieut.-Gen. Robert Hadden Haining ...
... war material for victory If an attempted the cable are confident invader: return their bases —Reuter New Evacuation From Gibraltar Re-evacuation Gibraltar has commenced and expected 15000 will are confident invaders : the week-end ' It officially announced ...
... largely avoided, for it is estimated that at least three-quarters of the B.E.F. in Belgium have now been evacuated. Through good progress in the evacuation and the reduction in the size of the Force remaining in Northern France, General Lord Gort has, on the ...
... Ely, in which year, and after holding a curacy at Bedford, he became an Army chaplain. He served during the Great War in Flanders and France, being mentioned in dispatches, and became chaplain of the Royal Air Force in 1918. He was senior chaplain in ...
... personnel had been fixed just short a million. This excluded auxiliary fire service, the auxiliary police, and casualty and evacuation services. The number wholetime paid personnel was roughly 180,000. The review of the establishment had reduced the annual ...