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EXPLOITS OF BLACK WATCH IN FLANDERS

... EXPLOITS OF BLACK WATCH IN FLANDERS Col. Shouted At Enemy Tank I'm British —and Tank Turned T ail Here is a story of the coolness, courage, and imperturbability of British soldiers that thrills the heart. What a picture is conjured up by J. L. Hodsons ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1313 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE GRENADIER GUARDS IN FLANDERS

... Armies into Flanders in defence of Belgium and Holland May 11. They took over part of the River Dyle line at Louvain, and first met the enemy attempting to pursue his usual tactics of infiltration on May 14. Then began the major tragedy of Flanders —the flooding ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1599 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The first picture showing how the B.E.F. are being evacuated from the coast of Flanders.—The small boats which ..

... The first picture showing how the B.E.F. are being evacuated from the coast of Flanders.—The small boats which brought the men from the shores and sandy beaches in and around Dunkirk to the safety of British warships and transports. (Picture by British ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 46 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAVY'S HEROISM IN EVACUATION

... NAVY'S HEROISM IN EVACUATION BY NORMAN RILEY On the South-east Coast. Thursday night. BRITISH and French troops landing at ports along this coast to-night told an epic story of the B.E.F. evacuation of a Flanders port. During yesterday and last night ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 536 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MIRACLE SAVED THEM FROM INFERNO OF FLANDERS

... MIRACLE SAVED THEM FROM INFERNO OF FLANDERS Vivid Glimpses of the Greatest Rearguard Action in History By J. L. HODSON SELDOM have I been so moved as to-day when I met men ot the B.E.F. back from the inferno in Flanders, some of them back with smiling faces ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2086 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE LONDON LETTERj Higher Farm Prices in J ll '* ' Buchan Burghs & Evacu# Kemsley House, W.C.I, Sunday night

... THE LONDON LETTERj Higher Farm Prices in J ll '* ' Buchan Burghs & Evacu# Kemsley House, W.C.I, Sunday night. BROADLY speaking, there are now three main courses open to Hitler, as they appear to expert London opinion this week-end. He may decide to hurl ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1319 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Britain Becomes a Fortress

... extrication of even a part of our hard-driven armies from the Flanders trap was more than some dared to hope for. It has called for skill, daring, and rapid organisation. That the evacuation of the B.E.F. will be accompanied or followed by heavy aerial ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Army's Thanks to War Workers

... Army's Thanks to War Workers The work done by the War Comforts Fund during and after the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders has brought a letter of thanks from Major-General G. P. Dawnay C.8.. C.M.G., D.5.0., M.V.0., Director-General of Voluntary ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WAR IN THE AIR

... the whole firmament was black with enemy bombers, yet four-fifths of the Allied forces were evacuated. Still the wonder grows at the exploit of the evacuation. The Germans, who set their minds on a certain achievement and whose imagination, when they ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Heroes of Dunkirk

... heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, made sixty miles' tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went the King was impressed, he said, by the excellent health and spirits of the troops, after their ordeal in Flanders. The award of the D.S.O ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ALLIES DEFY FORTY NAZI DIVISIONS

... Leopold's orders, and the troops under I them are still fighting side by side with the British and French in Flanders. The withdrawal and evacuation has been screened the R.A.F., who have been constantly in action, destroying over seventy enemy aircraft in ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Lord Milne's New Post

... defences of the country. They played creditable part in the recent operation >n Flanders and France. formed part of the rearguard which defended Boulogne during the evacuation, and also took part the defence of Dunkirk. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 2 | Tags: none