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TOGETHER IN RETREAT

... retreat from Arras and the evacuation Boulogne. FOOT AMI'L T VTF.L) CHESTERFIELD SOLDIF.R SERIOI'SLY ILL f»te. John Thomas Tarkin fA.M.P.C.i whose home at 23. Warwick Street Old Whittington. Chesterfield, was seriously wounded Flanders and present lying very ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 471 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ALLIES STILL LEAVING NORTHERN FRANCE

... STILL sing ■ l, P on thousands of British troops with some p some Belgians poured into South and South- U to-day, evacuated from Flanders and '-' Koyal Navy, Mercantile Marine, and R.A.F. °:! g walls of steel which Germany boasted would Hi .Sag„ b -E.F ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1184 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A Derby Man's Diary

... even from matches, can betray the presence of an objective. * Souvenir of Flanders A BIRTHDAY present sent off by her son, Private James Greig, Royal Engineers, before the evacuation from Dunkirk, has just been received by Mrs. A. Greig, of Coupar-Angus ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1155 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AIR RAID WARNINGS

... with casualties o! wounded civilians ns well as the sick nd wounded of the fighting forces. Owing to losses in the evacuation from Flanders and France. huge %2 th es of stores. ambulances, have etc., ad to be replnced and this has been a ver matter, Mav ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 635 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

NOTES BY THE WAY

... greoath of the two great Empires who erat tor Freedom and Justice, not only but) for the World. welter of the happenings in and Flanders, the Norwegian ati has been overlooked, but cum bers We have good news, In the i Narvik as now in Allied len and the German ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1538 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A Derby Man's Diary

... Government has expressed thanks to the railways for the energy shown in running numerous troop trains for the evacuation of the Allied troops from Flanders. For this task 620 trains were needed to carry more than 300,000 troops in the space of eight days. In ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1166 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A Derby Man's Diary

... note in opening the Council meeting when he spoke of the gallant work of our Army, Navy an ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1270 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GERMAN HORDES HELD AS B.E.F. RETREATS

... lost 2.000 out of 5,000 mechanised units. GERMAN CLAIMS To-day's German official communique states: The great battle in Flanders and Artois is approaching its end with the annihilation of the British and French armies fighting there. _ Since yesterday ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1445 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LL J. Birwley. D. Myra. B Maas. J. G. Ise& Adams. R. W. Gundry. K. Borrows. 1 FINE RECORD Ernest

... the! ,formation of the Ecclesfleld section,l and has seen active service on the ,western front. He was in the fighting! ;in Flanders, and recently had !hours' leave when he landed from, Dunkirk. Before joining up he! ,worked for ibbotson Bros., coal dealera ...

AUCTION SALO. ELITE CINEMA WE MAY SURPRISE HITLER LOOKING BACK German Technique Now Understood THIRTY-FIVE ..

... was made at Much has been written and aaid M . :14) 11311. about the fine work of our Navy and Air Force in the battle of Flanders, but much may . n ;leo be said of the fine .. • work of our F lish railways in connec- D AMAGES FOR DERBYSHIRE tion with ...

Published: Friday 12 July 1940
Newspaper: Ashbourne Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 2387 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SOME SOUTH YORKSHIRE MEN WITH H.M. FORCES

... a member of the Mill Lane Mission and Boy Scouts associated with the Mission. FROM DUNKIRK A South Elmsall lad who was ' evacuated from Dunkirk is William Howes (26), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W Howes, of 8. Chapel Lane. William is a member of a family ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

... Special Appeal A appeal for sock 9 for wounded. sick or combatant soldiers who lost everything thev possessed in the evacuation of Flanders being made this week by the Chesterfield Borough Division of the British Red Cross Society. Socks. Urates the Hon ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1476 | Page: 1 | Tags: none