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Welsh Welcome For BJE*F* Men Evacuated From Dunkirk

... Welsh Welcome For BJE*F* Men Evacuated From Dunkirk From early morning to late at night Saturday troop trains reached Cardiff carrying several thousands of the heroes the Flanders evacuation. The majority of the trains passed through the city on their ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1245 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NORTH WALES MEN IN FLANDERS Their Part in the Fighting

... NORTH WALES MEN IN FLANDERS Their Part in the Fighting In North Wales towns and villages this week local men serving with the 8.E.F.. home on leave after being evacuated from Northern France have been warmly wel. corned, and there have been some happy ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 373 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NAZIS’ DESPERATE Infantry “Mowed Down” in Massed Attacks evacuation CONTINUES FRENCH STEM BIG RAIDS ON THE ..

... NAZIS’ DESPERATE Infantry “Mowed Down” in Massed Attacks evacuation CONTINUES FRENCH STEM BIG RAIDS ON THE SOMME NIGHT & DAY THE Germans have launched a supreme effort to capture Dunkirk, hurling masses of infantry through flood waters in successive attacks ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 696 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THUMBS UP t—Mot Of the B.E.F

... THUMBS t—Mot Of the B.E.F. King Honours Lord Gort on Return From Flanders Lord Gort (Coimuander-ln-Chlef the British Expeditionary Force) returneo to England on Saturday and was invested by the King the same day with the Insignia of the Knight Grand Cross ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE NEW OFFENSIVE . The new enemy offensive which began dawn yesterday on front extending from the coast to point

... the sea we shall be able to reinforce it tremendously indeed have not already done so. Eventually the whole force evacuated from Flanders will find their way back into the new fighting line which in many of its sectors is identical with that firmly held ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 382 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Line Up With the Nazis

... Most of the people opened their homes to the men for Sunday dinner and tea. From almost all the cent re* where soldiers from Flanders ami France spent Sunday come reports indicating how insistent the men were having a church parade on Sunday morning, even ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Britain

... peace salion from Flanders, glorious was not victory, but a ■ glorious episode, and it was uty of all to make a maxifor final victory, andant expressed his thanks rv. helming kindness shown by this country to the French had been evacuated from claimed for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRODUCTION

... Britain had Sceptical About worked together as one man in the evacuation from Flanders, from which four-fifths of the B.E.F, had returned. A much less proportion of the French would be evacuated, for the French had been in the rearguard. Still, with Britain ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 773 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Great Ravages

... all kinds, ranging from converted liners to trawlers, have taken part in the defence of Dunkirk and the evacuation of the Allied Forces in Flanders. Nazis Difficulties The rest the front is relatively calm j The upper Somme is securely held the French ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 423 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NEWS OF LLANDUDNO SOLDIERS

... been busy during the lase fortnight as to the late ot young Llandudne soldiers known to nave been in the great struggle in Flanders. but in this review we refrain from mentioning any name not definitely reported oy the War Office or whose relatives have ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: North Wales Weekly News
County: Denbighshire, Wales
Type: | Words: 242 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Satire and Fantasy

... said believed in miracles. The evacuation from Dunkirk is a miracle. Wales Does Well Wales has risen wonderfully to the occasion in its reception both of battlescarred soldiers straight from Flanders and France and of evacuated schoolchildren. Glowing testimony ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 956 | Page: 4 | Tags: none