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SUZANNE HARRISON Y.M.C.A. Lost' £20,000 In Retreat

... SUZANNE HARRISON Y.M.C.A. Lost' £20,000 In Retreat IN the evacuation from Belgium and Flanders, not only did we lose a tremendous amount of war equipment, but also much in the way of medical and other supplies. On Saturday afternoon, at a demonstration ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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THE WORLD OF WOMEN Wonderful Spirit of the Wounded

... IVISITED one of our northern war hospitals this weekend, and the cheerfulness, grit and determination of the wounded from Flanders made one's heart glad that Britain could produce such fine men. On lovely balconies overlooking lawns and trees, many of ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
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... came to be on the line No Evacuation of Children To The Dominions Mr Shakespeare asked in House of this afternoon whether he would approach Canadian and other Dominions Governments to if children' others to go could evacuated to Dominions said that apart ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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OUR FLEET a SURE SHIELD

... very well be in a better position for fighting the war than we are at the moment. It must be remembered that our force in Flanders is an expeditionary force, and the maintaining of lines of communication for any form of expedition is one of the greatest ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 842 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Gethsemane Of The People

... Army that waited in perfect discipline on the shell-swept beaches .of Dunkirk, and of the Navy and airmen who made that evacuation possible. These men endured unto the end. As Dr. Jan Masaryk said in Leicester the other night. They looked Into hell let ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1001 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... killed action Flanders - 'was educated at Oakham School where becftm prefect Cu3 of Ufflcers' Training Corps Mrs H Walton of 37 Melton-road Barrow - Soar received official nw brother Serat- John W Loom was killed in on during the Dunkirk evacuation Sergt-Major ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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... ' said to preparing to hurl all available forces against the French capital soon-she— operations i' in Flanders are completed The battle in Flanders' said the Rome announcer has been rightly described the greatest battle in history but the battle to ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 2366 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... can't lie) chuckling at the way in which happened. It was just after the evacuation in Dunkirk, and our hero spent a day two in Leicester recuperating eta the hectic time In Flanders. Be was taken to billets in one of many roads that run off Melbourne road ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1005 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... fighting in sector and their- officers included one-armed veteran of the - - : '--rfj Trains carrying Tommies back from' Flanders were running wo'smbothly today that they not stop at some Cripps -Still -In'Athens - It la learned in London thatno' further ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
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- '-1?' THE LEICESTER MERCURY WEDNESDAY 5th JUNE 1940 ' you feel all in? AFTER A STRENUOUS GAME How often

... Allied Germans' Losses and - naval staie-iliai the evacuation fjrecLilunt military history up to three it was that il hot evacuate more than 100000 men German headquarters in a survey ol ihe Flanders fighting give their losses iaand June-1 as61338 killed ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Daily Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1706 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE WORLD OF WOMEN

... Spirit interceded and the miracle happened—the modern Judas was foiled. Although Hitler flung a million men against us in Flanders our soldiers were delivered gloriously by the men and craft that were brought into service for the purpose the utilisation ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1397 | Page: 4 | Tags: none