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MESSAGE FROM DUNKIRK

... MESSAGE FROM DUNKIRK. A bottle thrown into the sea from the beaches at Dunkirk in May has just been washed ashore on the Isle of Man. It contained the names and addresses of some of the men waiting to be brought off by the famous rescue fleet of small ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Writes Home A WORLD-WIDE ORGANISATION LOOKS AFTER NIS LETTER Thomas Smith, of London Town, was captured at ..

... Writes Home A WORLD-WIDE ORGANISATION LOOKS AFTER NIS LETTER Thomas Smith, of London Town, was captured at Dunkirk and is now a prisoner-01-war in Germany. He writeg regularly to his wife who lives in Brixton. Hans Schmidt, of Hamburg, was a Üboat seaman ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1942
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

'BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY

... trawlers, was given leave just before the Dunkirk evacuation. He got into civilian clothe, borrowed a civilian identification card and enlisted for service on a small motor-boas. He made three trips to Dunkirk before rejoining his trawler. ...

Published: Friday 02 August 1940
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 51 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WOUNDED IN ITALY

... has been wounded in Italy. Formerly employed at Chapel Works, he was mobilised on the outbreak of war, and came through Dunkirk. before being sent to the Middle East. ...

Published: Wednesday 20 October 1943
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THEY SWEEP THE

... perhaps because their country's story has for four hundred years been knit up by small ships, because from the Armada to ,Dunkirk small ships have sailed straight into the dangers that beset her. That may he why in peacetime boys wear sailor suits, elderly ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1943
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DIED IN LONDON

... Montmse, has died in a London hospital at the age of twentyfour. In the army for a time, he took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk and later he was released to rvintinue %Ark as a railway fireman in the London district. ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1942
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOLDIER DIES OF WOUNDS

... Royal Regiment, son of Mr and Mrs David Stewart, Barns of Craig, has died of wounds. He served for 5i years, came through Dunkirk and was wounded two years ago in North Africa. Twenty-six years of age, he was formerly a gardener near Plymouth. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1945
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FLYING OFFICER REPORTED

... the beginning of the war and, by a coincidence, was brought off at Dunkirk by his elder brother's ship. His brother, Lieut. D. 11. Mellis, R.N., received the D.S.C. for gallantry at Dunkirk. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 November 1944
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DIED flt SIAMESE CAMP

... December 1943 at a prisoner of war camp in Siam. Innes was in , ' the regular army: He served in France, was evacuated from Dunkirk and was taken prisoner in. Malaya. He is survived by. his wife and son, who live at Blandford, Dorset. ...

Published: Wednesday 28 November 1945
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FATALLY INJURED

... FATALLY INJURED thinner t.leorge Mitchell. who served with the Royal Artillery on the Belgian front and came through Dunkirk, has died in England as the rest& of an accident. Younger lion of ldr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Mitchell, 12 Market Street. Mon- I Jrose ...

Published: Wednesday 19 August 1942
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 66 | Page: 5 | Tags: none