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B.E.F. EVACUATION IS PROCEEDING

... have increased their pressure on both Hanks of our forces. Troops not immediately engaged in the fighting have been evacuated —the evacuation is still successfully proceeding —and numbers have already reached Britain. The , heroic defence of Calais by a small ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1828 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WAR SERVICE FOR STARS

... FRENCH ADMIRAL Admiral Abrial. who is in command the French naval forces which have been assisting in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Flanders, has been awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Wax Special. ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 91 | Page: 6 | 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

MORE b.e.f. buzzard of bombs men HOME ON B.E.F. SHIPS

... s« the Nazis that they -ttc. man for L', more than match for them. number of French officers and men ..vo been tiKhtina in Flanders have jlso arrived in this country. TUNES is one raid. One soldier who had been through Kveral Intensive battle, which •he ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 1203 | Page: 3 | 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