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... Ely, in which year, and after holding a curacy at Bedford, he became an Army chaplain. He served during the Great War in Flanders and France, being mentioned in dispatches, and became chaplain of the Royal Air Force in 1918. He was senior chaplain in ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1041 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

2 THE WEST BRITON (MONDAY EVENING’S EDITION) MARCH 4 BI-WEEKLY EDITION “PRISCA FIDES” MONDAY MARCH 4th 1940 ..

... receive 28200 children under the Government’s revised evacuation scheme This was revealed to a conference of local authorities held at Truro on Thursday when Mr L G Hanuy Ministry of Health evacuation officer for the South-Western area described the plans ...

TO STOP ACUTE INDIGESTION

... despatched and over - 100 more are ready to be sent. Sugar for jam has been applied for; and a pageant episode arranged for the Evacuation Fund , for Waifs and Strays. The birthday cake. ' made by Mrs. Tompkins and iced by Mrs. . S. Imber, was cut. A hearty vote ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1940
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Article | Words: 7232 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEW CABINET MEANS FRESH DRIVE

... declare, have been attacking harmless villages, and in some places have dropped bombs on schools where children had assembled evacuated. Air raid alarms have been frequent, they say, that they could not distinguish the warning from the all clear. A woman ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 706 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NAZIS RETREAT AFTER FIERCE BATTLE

... Averts A Serious Position Near Liege GERMAN ASSAULT ON SAAR SECTOR OF MAGINOT LINE WHILE countless 'planes battled over the Flanders Plain and Western Front yesterday, total war spread sta«e further when German troops commenced attack advance posts ol the ...

Published: Monday 13 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2180 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORLD DESTINY HANGS ON PRESENT BATTLE

... estimated that the Nazis have lost 1,000 since they invaded the Low Countries. DUTCH ISLANDS EVACUATED THE ISLANDS OF BEVELAND AND WALCHTEREN HAVE BEEN EVACUATED, IT WAS LEARNED LONDON EARLY THIS MORNING. Both islands, including the towns of Middelburg ...

Published: Saturday 18 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1331 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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... full of hope In its initial actions with the enemy the IJEF that the men are of the same calibre those trod the fields of Flanders in 1 4 Their task the same with difference: occasion they are more not little contemptible force— better equipped and at ...

FRENCH REGAIN ARRAS

... along the Maginot Line there is nothing to report. Senlis Told Evacuation Unnecessary The population of Senlis, about 25 miles north-east of Paris, was warned to-day by Radio Paris that evacuation is quite unneces- sary. A message trom the Prefect of the Oise ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1456 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SCHEME FOR VISITS TO WOUNDED

... different from the last, when the wounded were so largely cared for in hospitals in France and Flanders. 44 This time every man who can possibly evacuated hospital in the United Kingdom is brought here. Hundred* of inquiries are reaching us for news ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ATTACKED BY NAZI 'PLANES

... ATTACKED BY NAZI 'PLANES Cornishman And His Family FLANDERS ORDEAL Baby Saved By British Soldier \RRIVING at Penryn yesterday after a hectic flight from Flanders, bringing with them their two-months-old baby, a son aged 6, and a daughter aged 10, Mr. ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 846 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WEST BRITON (MONDAY EVENING’S EDITION) MAY 27 194U NEWS DETERMINED TO CARRY ON SECOND EDITION AMAZING ..

... from Berlin says that Prince Wilhelm eldest son of the ex-Crown Prince died yesterday of wounds received while fighting in Flanders Before he died he received the Iron Cross of the First Class it was stated Malta is taking defensive precautions and the ...

FLANDERS BATTLE GROWS IN INTENSITY

... FLANDERS BATTLE GROWS | INTENSITY GREATER PART OF NAZI ARMY ENGAGED IN STRUGGLE FRENCH AND ALLIED TROOPS HOLD UP ADVANCE RIS, MONDAY.—THE OFFICIAL FRENCH COMMUNIQUE pA TO-DAY STATES:— ‘© In the north the enemy continues his attacks, French and Allied ...

Published: Monday 27 May 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1537 | Page: 1 | Tags: none