... FLANDERS COAST BATTLE REARGUARD PUTTING UP TERRIFIC FIGHT EVACUATED B.E.F. MEN IN GOOD SPIRITS ...

... the actual evacuation from Dunkirk. He was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. E. Francis. of Chatley Furlong. Norton fit. Philip. who had two sons--Lanee-Corporal Edward Francis and Corporal Arthur • son-in-1•w Da;id Hennessy of London—serving in Flanders. They were ...

... W. Young) gave an address. A Incledon Webber, with British Legion officials and an escort of Home Guard, laid a wreath of Flanders poppies and laurels on the Memorial Cross In the centre of the village. Briysh Legion poppy collection raised £36 12s 6d ...

... several weeks, but knew that he had been in the Flanders fighting. Priv. Foster had written to his parents several times and posted one letter immediately after he arrived back in England following the evacuation from Dunkirk, but none of the letters had reached ...

... visitation.” THE KING’S MOVING MESSAGE Disaster into Triumph, A moving message of admiration and sympathy for the heroes of the Flanders rearguard battle has been received from the King by Mr. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. It reads ...

... his wife to come home on leave shortly. He served in France from January until the evacuation from Dunkirk. He participated in much of the heaviest fighting in Flanders. Aged thirty years. Staff-Sergt. Gifford had numerous friends in the Trowbridge district ...

... Church Music, has embarked on a country-wide mission of salvaging choral music from the ruin wrought by the war. Owing to evacuation, many choirboys are in districts where they are getting no musical training Therefore, singlehanded, but with the approval ...

... from Flanders— rescued from the jaws of death as the Premier put it—together with their French and Belgium confreres—and the whole country pays its tribute to their courageous and indomitable spirit, which alone helped to make the evacuation of our ...

... heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, and His Majesty made a 60-miles tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went he was impressed, he said, by the excellent health and spirits of the troops after their ordeal in Flanders. Amongst the officers ...

... Bincombe, Over Stowey, near Bridgwater, a soldier, who said he served throughout the fighting in France and Flanders, and was in the Dunkirk evacuation. Another charge against him was of driving to the danger of the public. The magistrates reduced this charge ...

... WORK BY NAVY AND AIR FORCE The B.E.F, rearguard and their French and Belgian comrades are fighting a terrific battle on the Flanders coast against 1,000,000 Nazi soldiers. Bitter fighting is going on in the fortified area of Dunkirk, while the withdrawal ...

... continually. As a reesult of the national appeal nearly £420.000 was raised, but they needed very much more. the evacuation from Flanders they lost equipment worth more than £60,000. Mr. Hayes said they were looking to the people Taunton and district ...