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BACILLI

... the circuaists.nces so exactly coincide with the version made public that it seems' safe to assume the airman was Hess. DUNKIRK HERO WEDS. A Bagillt soldier who among those evacuated from Funkirk, was married on %,ttirclay to a Liverpool railway clerk ...

Published: Friday 23 May 1941
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Jones FIVE SOS SERVI

... room a Castle Woe:ks, Flint, and is a noted billiard player with Holywell C.Y.M.S. He came safely through the evacuation of Dunkirk. _The other married son serving with the Colours. is Sergt. Leonard Conway (32), of 39, Park Avenue, Flint. He Ins served ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1940
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 482 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Almost Doubled in Eighteen Years SCHOLARS' ESSAYS

... story with dialogue— children visit their father (a wounded soldier) in hospital, and he tells them about • the horrors of Dunkirk and ties up the story with the need for salvage. A nice touch: Jean bent over the bed to give her father a kiss, but John ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1942
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHITFORD

... Cottage& no has recovered ftorn occident sustained whilst on Guardsman Ins Dates} served for seven Yews and In evacuation of Dunkirk. He was .. did not, see es& other, Wanting other SI haunt iseddent Irmently _ WIDOW/I. young, in good Preiltion. no children ...

Published: Friday 19 February 1943
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BY FAITH

... fantastic and wicked faith that their ruthless actions spring. To that faith we oppose another. What held us in the dark hour of Dunkirk and turned disaster into glory was our faith. Faith in ourselves, in the destiny of the British people. Faith in our cause ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1940
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH CORVETTE'S RECORD LLANASA MAN MEMBER OF CREW

... direct hit on the E-boat, which caught Are and sank. The Guillemot was also present at the blocking of Ostend Barbour and at Dunkirk. 011icially adapted by the We of Man, she has also been unoelcially adopted by the girls of St. Joseph's Convent School, ...

Published: Friday 20 August 1943
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 241 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NOM MOM MOIL

... home after lour serv..te -1 India A soidler. be iai.ded In France :we dims after war Ir.. declared. nd WWI evacuated via Dunkirk Later be went to tilingaporv. landing there ono before lie fail. and alerting the to. - -- lowing and _boy*: _ Stanly since ...

Published: Friday 20 July 1945
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MILWR

... had was Mlite —Nevtriseer had so many owed so much to so few. He paid tribute to the wet of the Navy and especially after Dunkirk. men of the Navy had proved thamselvest greater than men. leas than men if did not sacrifice more such a Wale cause. The seamen ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1942
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOLYWELL. KEEN CASH PRICES GRERN YIELD

... HOLYWELL. KEEN CASH PRICES GRERN YIELD HOME FROM DUNKIRK.—Among Greenfield members of the 8.E.F., who have been home on a leave during the past weeks are Len Parry, Cainnon Crescent; Leslie Isgar, Cairn. cult; Norman Kelmen, Kings Villa; Noel Hughes, ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM DRIVER TO CAPTAIN

... returning to France he found that he had been promoted lieutenant. He came safely thmngh the events precedin4 the evacuation of Dunkirk, but during the eva_ cuation itself he W3A badly injured in the shoulder through coming into collision with the side or a ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1940
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CLARKE GERRARD – WILKES

... honeymoon. The bridegroom has been In the Merchant Navy for six years, and holds the 1939 and 1943 Stars. He took part in the Dunkirk evacuation and the N. African, Sicilian and Normandy landings. ...

Published: Friday 11 August 1944
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WELSH TROOPS' FINE WAR RECORD DEEDS WON MANY GALLANTRY AWARDS

... 500 skitroops who were driven cif with great loss. BOMB MADE HIS NOSE BLEED The second campaign--the operations that eed to Dunkirk—pro-. vided the Principality with many stirring 'stories of her sons' pluck and endurance. The record of the Welsh Guards ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1941
Newspaper: Flintshire County Herald
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 8 | Tags: none