... batteries taking part in the fighting on the Albert Canal and then in front of Bruges. After the surrender he succeeded in Dunkirk with some 20 other officers. The Belgian troops were amazed when the order came to lay down arms, he said. The duty and desire of ...

... of Mr. and Mrs. H. Oswald, of 46 Wandsworth Road. Norris Green, has died in southern hospital from wounds received at Dunkirk. He was 20 years of age. and had been in the Army twelve months to the day He was an old scholar of Hall Lane School. Private Adrian ...

... IN WRECK OFF DUNKIRK french soldiers saved AFTER NINE DAYS Details of the rescue of nine French soldiers by a British motor-boat off Dunkirk have become known. They had existed, since the evacuation on a wreck sunk in shallow water within a few miles ...

... Tools were thrown down and the engineers went down to ships they had never seen before, and in 20 minutes they had sailed for the bomb-ridden waters of Dunkirk.” ...

... SAVE GUN AT DUNKIRK FULL MILITARY HONOURS THE funeral—the first military funeral of this war at Carlton —took place on Monday afternoon of a 20-years-old Sherwood Forester who died from wounds received when fighting in the retreat from Dunkirk. He was Edward ...

... metor-boat some time after the withdrawal of Allied troops from Dunkirk have become known. Fee nine days these survivors had existed on board a wreck sunk in shallow water within a few miles of Dunkirk. They were rescued on June 12 For nine days they had been ...

... VICTIM OF DUNKIRK ACTION News has been received of the death action of Pte Stanley Horace Richards. 20. youngest of four sons of the, late Mr. J. Richards and Mrs. Heard, and whose home was at 2. Quay \ Lane. Exeter. He was killed at sea, off Dunkirk. An old ...

... the destroyer, Wakeful, which was sank 6,„ operations off Dunkirk this week, ree, his experiences to a Herald reporter. 1-I,• told how the ship proceeded to Dunkirk. We embarked 700 men in 20 minute,. continued, taking them aboard from th,. jetty ...

... him dead and. while the N.C.O. dashed downstairs. the Stock Exchange man Jumped through the window, managed do the 20 .niles to Dunkirk, and, arriving there, was taken on board a ship which, homeward bound, was torpedoed. He and others were transferred ...

... Evacuated from Dunkirk he is now in England. Harry Preston (26), married, IT. Milton Street, Palfrey. Formerly employed at the 13.5. A. works, lie was called in September and went abroad with an anti-tank unit. He, too, got awav from Dunkirk unscathed and ...

... from Thorpe Hesley to pay the supreme sacrifice. He was 20 years of age. He has another brother on active service. SOLDIER AT SEA.—Private D. Harold Copley who was in the evacuation from Dunkirk, and is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Copley, of 96, Hesley ...

... S.S. ST. HELIER AT DUNKIRK BOMBED AND SHELLED WHILE EVACUATING TROOPS In the epic story of the evacuation of the Allied troops from Dunkirk an heroic part was played the G.W.R. steamer St. Helier. St. Helier was on the job for ten days, making eight journeys ...