... Special MONA*S QUEEN VICTIM Mr. Alexander Mills, pantryman, who lost his life when the Mona*s Queen was sunk during the Flanders evacuation, lived at 36 Fincham Road. Finch Lane, Liverpool. He was aged 38, was married, and had three children. He had been employed ...

... * * * Flanders, 1940 I suggest that a special! medal he struck at once for issue to all our heroes who took part in the battles in Flanders and the evacuation. The colouring of the ribbon to be blood-red (Flanders poppies), bisected with bars of Air Force ...

... Echoes and Gossip of the Day Fighting Their Way Out Of Flanders 'T'HE evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and French troops is being carried out by the Allied Navies screened by Allied warplanes. Many wounded and other troops have already been ...

... awards have been made, in the main, for gallantry and devotion to duty by officers and N.C.O.s before the evacuation of France and Flanders. The Hoylake man is Leading Aircraftman George Frederick Lewis, whose home is in Ferndale Road, Hoyla k e. The ...

... The M.C.*s were bestowed chiefly in connection with the courageous and gallant work of officers in the Flanders campaign and the Dunkirk evacuation. The Queen watched the ceremony, which took place in the inner quadrangle, from an open French window on ...

... send their children away from the horrors of war.” A Liverpool Soldier's “Fll Be Back 9f A young Liverpool private evacuated from Flanders, and who is now at Sunderland, told of forced marches of more than thirty miles a day with a machine-gun bullet in ...

... Lance-Corporal Clifford Edward Williams, aged 25, a Guardsman, whose home is in South Wales, is one of the B.E.F. evacuated from Flanders. In order to visit his wife and the baby he has never seen, he took away a doctor's car in order to get home. He drove ...

... question of the B.E.F, fleeing before their enemies. THEIR CLAIM EXPLODED Another interesting point emerging out of this evacuation —it may be too early to draw the full lesson yet—is that although the Germans, not having much of their Navy left, have ...

... AIR MINISTRY (1 P.M.) The Air Ministry announced this afternoon: Royal Air Force fighters continue to screen the evacuation of Allied troops from the North-East Coast of France Further reports show that during yesterday 56 enemy aircraft were destroyed ...

... Paris statement on the Nazi attacks on the Somme is on Page 3. ALLIES ARE AS ONE IN FLANDERS was emphasised in London, to-day, that the withdrawal of the forces from Flanders is combined Allied operation during which the British and French are working in ...

... last war with the Territorial Army, serving in Gallipoli from the Suvla Bay landing to the evacuation, and afterwards in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, France, and Flanders. He was awarded the French Medaille D’Honneur with bar, as we say in English, by the President ...

... 200 SPIES SHOT There came endless stories of the Fifth Column menace when the men from Flanders arrived. One Birkenhead private told of 200 spies being shot in Dunkirk in one day alone. Another spy, who was seen by soldiers signalling directions with ...