... adding to the epic. The Ministry of Information has sufficient evidence to speak of the successful progress of this crucial evacuation, screened so gallantly all through by the R.A.F. Anxiety must continue while the big battle still rages, and until the ...

... IRON It was revealed in London yesterday that the crew of a British ship ironed the clothes of nurses whom they evacuated from the Flanders coast. The ship had made its third trip across the North Sea then it picked up a party of hospital nurses who were ...

... ROLL OUT THE BARREL HTHERE are many angles to the confused collective * story brought back from Flanders by our evacuated troops. But the cheerful sangfroid they must all have shown under fire and battery is a general impression. As usual with the average ...

... PHE whole country rejoices at the safe return of Lord Gort and the bravery which he showed in staying in Flanders until the bulk of the evacuated troops had left for home. We expected nothing less gallant from great leader of men who won the V.C. for ...

... crowded station platforms in outer London yesterday to give a rousing welcome to British and French troops back from the Flanders battlefields as their trains steamed through the stations- Kiddies clamoured at the counters of sweetshops near one station ...

... the heroes of the Flanders rearbattle has been received from the King r - Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister. re ads:~ to express my admiration of the out- and bravery shown by the three services ritj L merchant navy in the evacuation of the (i Force ...

... London, Wednesday. I FOUND her sitting among a group of Army nurses who have returned from heroic work among the B.E.F. in Flanders —a little shrimp of a Yorkshire girl, with wavy auburn hair and a dusting of freckles on her nose. She was nursing a tin ...

... This Is REAL Gratitude £lOO Cheque from B.E.F- Man s Father In a spirit of thankfulness A for his son’s safe return from Flanders,” an Olton man has sent £lOO to the Lord Mayor of Birmingham (Councillor T. B. Pritchett), asking him to pass it on to an ...

... many anxious moments. It was a stirring struggle. The exchanges were brimful of interest to the end. Devey, recently evacuated from Flanders, played a sound game at centre-half for Birmingham, and Duckhouse, another soldier-player in the home team, led the ...

... were evacuated from Dunkirk. To-day I met a man who was in both the retirement from Flanders and the withdrawal from Normandy last week-end. Now that the French authorities have themselves admitted their terrible folly in taking no steps to evacuate refugees ...

... landing would cost all that, and then would come the prospect of meeting British soldiers on British soil, and we know that in Flanders the enemy were always happy to break off engagements with the B E.F. and tx*ansfer to another part of the front. Even if ...

... SOLDIER DID NOT FORGET MOTHER: JUST FLANDERS RECEIVED GIFT \ BIRTHDAY present sent off by her soldier son in Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. A. Qreig, of Bonnygate, Coupar Angus. Fifeshire. The parcel, battered ...