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DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED

... DUNKIRK GENERALS DECORATED Paris, Monday.—Upon tha recommendation of General Weygand, Commander-in-Chief the Allied armies. General Blanchard, commander of the armies in the north east, has been awarded tha Grand Cross the Legion of Honour and Ceneral ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK, THIS SHINING THING

... DUNKIRK, THIS SHINING THING New York. Saturday.— So l.ng as the English tongue survives the word Dunkirk will be spoken with reverence. A leading article in the New York Times, paying this tribute fto-day adds: The rags and blemishes which have ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK

... SLOW PROGRESS AT DUNKIRK NAZI COMMUNIQUE ADMISSION To-day's German communique says:—- The attack against Dunkirk from the West, the South, and the East, is slowly making progress. The difficult terrain, which is flooded and trenched by numerous ditches ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEAVILY BOMBED

... DUNKIRK HEAVILY BOMBED GERMAN ONSLAUGHT ON VITAL PORT. PARIS, Wednesday. The German Air Force has very heavily bombed the port of Dunkirk. At present the port is not directly threatened by German land attacks. ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 34 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STILL RESISTING AT DUNKIRK

... STILL RESISTING AT DUNKIRK Embarkation of Allied Troops Proceeding NAZIS KEEP UP* BOMBARDMENT TN THE REGION OF DUNKIRK ALLIED TROOPS ARE STILL RESISTING THE UNCEASING ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY WITH ADMIRABLE VIGOUR, DESPITE SEVERE ARTILLERY AND AIR BOMBARDMENT ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 1326 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FEROCIOUS FIGHTING IN DUNKIRK AREA

... with le withdrawal of their troops from Dunkirk, the lere lias reached a ferocity unparalleled tin the Ca nipaign, according to reports reaching Paris. f s German communique claims that Nazi troops ene^ra into Dunkirk, and that house-to-house ln is going ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NAZIS STILL BATTER AWAY AT DUNKIRK

... ground. It is believed that ships of the Allied Navies were shelling areas at the back of Dunkirk. Although machine-gunned, bombed and shelled, working parties at Dunkirk yesterday went out and reverently buried the Allied dead. Fighting 16 Days We have ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1733 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FORMER BRISTOL FOOTBALLER'S ORDEAL AT DUNKIRK

... FORMER BRISTOL FOOTBALLER'S ORDEAL AT DUNKIRK Incessant Attacks While Awaiting Embarkation Among the many thousands of the B.E.F. who have been sent to the West Country is Arthur Turner, the forme Bristol City full back, who by curiou. coincidence finds ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 304 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

French Rearguard Men Reaching Dunkirk

... however, net yet been able te rcach the Dunkirk area, and it admitted that the position of these men becoming more and mere difficult. The who have not auffieient means to attack the fortified positions round Dunkirk from the lantl, have been carrying out ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 899 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONDON LONDON, Mo«d HTHE Allies are entitled A gratification at the brilliaO Pj. the evacuation from DunkirK W$ ..

... the brilliaO Pj. the evacuation from DunkirK W$ part of tha British Expedition* $ * J What people are not entitled t0 talk as the Allies had on ' fl S victory, a triumph it was four-fifths of the men who fell \* Dunkirk before the German p9 is to rob the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 489 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE OLD CITY ISLAND AND THE SEINE

... OLD CITY ISLAND AND THE SEINE. EVACUATION GOES ON AT DUNKIRK Germans Claim Port is Captured DESPITE continual attacks from the air and by long-range artillery, troops are still embarking from Dunkirk in large numbers and in perfect order. German infantry ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Express and Echo
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 192 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIERCE REARGUARD ACTION BY B.E.F

... Up to Tuesday night French units still held out in Calais. BATTLE OFF DUNKIRK Hurricanes And Defiants Rout Enemy Aircraft In a terrific air battle over the French coast near Dunkirk last night, formation of Hurricanes and Defiants shot down 22 of a large ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1705 | Page: 3 | Tags: none