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AFTER HISTORIC REARGUARD ACTION

... 1,000,000 Germans, members of the British Expeditionary Force sailed from Dunkirk last night in a blaze of glory, leaving Flanders fields to flood and fire. Allied warships accomplished prodigious feats, sending shells from their big guns into the Nazi ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

HEATH SOLDIER HONOURED

... HEATH SOLDIER HONOURED Home on. leave, after taking part in Ithe evacuation from Flanders, Pte. Wm. lAlfred Edwards. husband of Mrs. C. Edwards. Maria Street. Neath, and son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Edwards. .Aberavon. was presented with a ring by the ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Neath Guardian
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Cefn Coed R.A.F. Pilot

... in Flanders. Some are due home on leave, but have Morris, not yet arrived. Pte. Randall orris, son of Mr. and Mre. William Morris, Pontycapel-road, Cefn Coed, was home for a few days' leave over the week-end : he was concerned in the evacuation from ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Merthyr Express
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 214 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Line Up With the Nazis

... Most of the people opened their homes to the men for Sunday dinner and tea. From almost all the cent re* where soldiers from Flanders ami France spent Sunday come reports indicating how insistent the men were having a church parade on Sunday morning, even ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Efficacy of Prayer

... Efficacy of Prayer Sir, —As the news of the successful evacuation our troops from Flanders became known to us it appeared clear that as a nation w-e have again had an answer to the prayers which we collectively offered recently on the command of our King ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 176 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WESTERN MAIL & SOUTH WALES NEWS, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1940. 200,000 Men “Walked Plank” to Safety A small hand of

... room,’’ at naval base the South-east Coast of Kngiand, helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than 335,000 officers and men of the Allied Forces beleaguered ill Flanders. The full story of their part and of the brilliant naval operations which ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 190 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Britain

... peace salion from Flanders, glorious was not victory, but a ■ glorious episode, and it was uty of all to make a maxifor final victory, andant expressed his thanks rv. helming kindness shown by this country to the French had been evacuated from claimed for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRODUCTION

... Britain had Sceptical About worked together as one man in the evacuation from Flanders, from which four-fifths of the B.E.F, had returned. A much less proportion of the French would be evacuated, for the French had been in the rearguard. Still, with Britain ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 773 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Great Ravages

... all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied Forces in Flanders. Nazis Difficulties The rest the front is relatively calm j The upper Somme is securely held the French ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Hitler Ising I-ast Reserves

... confusion. In Flanders and on the Meuse there was confusion, and for day or two chaos, but Gen. Weygand is keeping his armies together, and so long as that is done the fury of the German attack is futile —and the Nazis know it. Evacuating Children to Dominions ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 431 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

l 1940 'FLOUR BROADCASTING IN PAGE THREE DAME WALES CASH BONUS 59 ALL NEXT WEEK NO SATURDAY JUNE 1940 Eegistcred

... one-armed veteran of the last war According some estimates only a division of Allied troops now remains in Flanders Trains carrying Tommies back from Flanders were running so smoothly to-day that they did not stop at some of the stations in the London area where ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: South Wales Daily Post
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 3070 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Satire and Fantasy

... said believed in miracles. The evacuation from Dunkirk is a miracle. Wales Does Well Wales has risen wonderfully to the occasion in its reception both of battlescarred soldiers straight from Flanders and France and of evacuated schoolchildren. Glowing testimony ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 956 | Page: 4 | Tags: none