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MERfT FIRST MEETING WITH THE ENEMY AT VIMY: “WE HELD THEM” From Our Own Correspondent London Saturday wounded ..

... crossed in motor-boats to Dunkirk on Friday to carry troops from Dunkirk sands to destroyers and other vessels Home yesterday suffering from shock and exhaustion he told this story motor-boats taken across As we approached Dunkirk Roads German aircraft were ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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W4I German souveijirs they have brought home including jfficer’s sword wayside station HIGHLANDERS COVERED THE ..

... Lille “Next day was taken to a hospital Dunkirk I want to pay tribute to a French surgeon there For two days and nights he worked without a break tending to both French and British wounded When boats arrived at Dunkirk it was not possible to get conveyances ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Mercury June WINGS OVER THE NAVY-Pages 4 and i ir“ £ I: 9 AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARS PAGE SIX

... the evacuation being greatly speeded-up) while at Dunkirk the German drive was still being opposed by Allied units Squadrons of the RAF and Allied warships continued to screen the withdrawal from Dunkirk smashing and pounding advancing Germans German attacks ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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SUNDAY MERCURY Jane 1944 ITALIAN TENSION ACUTE Erinmore Cigarettes 53“ US EMBASSY CLERK DETAINED IN LONDON ..

... situation at Dunkirk was slightly worse Germans were heavily bombarding the armed camp where British and French troops were still embarking Some of the British and French troops which had been cut off from the main body withdrawing towards Dunkirk have succeeded ...

Published: Sunday 02 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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SUNDAY MERCURY 9 Jun 1940 Thirteen IT'S IN THE NEWS wilt o'z By Charles Howarth old Thomas Jay's NEWS-EYE VIEWS

... fashion plate sports model of the Missing Link was actually discussing the war and the epic withdrawal ol our troops from Dunkirk Strewth ! AT At THE BUDDIES: may not for hearty laughs least let's wear same smile we Use our photographs FTER finding a goat ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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ijpiPERSHING’S PLEA FOR ALLIES man storm troops passing through a village which they tokc and flame rebuilt ..

... tokc and flame rebuilt their homes after the devastation of 1914-18 it on the invader Yom hell to peace ench soldiers from Dunkirk lend a hand at aking castle at English South Coast resort “SEND THEM ALL WE CAN” HOLDING AMERICA’S FRONT LINE Washington Saturday ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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MERCURY E FOR YOUR JUNK COLLECTION OF SALVAGE TO ime iterlude for refreshment at village Somewhere Britain” he ..

... and said he expected they would stay at a hotel BUP DUNKIRK MAN IN FATAL CRASH John Bewsher 26 of Teston near Maidstone a lance-bombardier in the Kent Yeomnry came safely through the horrors of Dunkirk Motor-cycling on Thursday at Abergele (Denbigh) was ...

Published: Sunday 23 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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SUNDAY MERCURY June 1940 Three NEW ALLIED BOND CASH PACT WITH BELGIUM HOLLAND TO SIGN TOO SOON BY tripartite ..

... lost NAZIS FIRE LIFEBOAT BRIDE-TO-BE WAITED AS HEROIC OFFICER DIED JATALLY wounded when a German plane attacked his ship off Dunkirk a young naval officer carried on firing at the enemy until he had brought the plane down Meanwhile at his home port his b ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1630 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

rnf Four 16 Jnae 1M DCM for Guardsman HE REFUSED TO LEAVE AFTER TANK ATTACK BOULOGNE EPIC: DECORATIONS FOR OFFICERS

... mind British and the comes from India is the notice which a Leeds organ-grinder has put on instrument Om the last to leave Dunkirk Lewis Roy Lloyd son Mr and Mrs L A Lloyd of Handsworth Birmingham was married yesterday at St Agnes Church Moseley Birmingham ...

Published: Sunday 16 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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MERCURY 23 Juae THERE MUST BE EQUALITY OF WAR has at last come home to us ‘‘That pale that white-faced

... that such lives as his ought not to be risked They are far too valuable to other lives” Have any of the families bereaved at Dunkirk any lesser cause than the duke's friends to question whether their lives ought to have been risked? Duke’s son cook's son ...

Published: Sunday 23 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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MERCURY M June 1944 five new character mr 7 WK much different S' from those which troubled earlier flotillas I

... destroyers or cruisers but for every of such excitement hundred be spent in uneventful patrol The epic re-embarkation from Dunkirk a big feather in the caps our flotillas Conditions were such that heavier craft could not operate to the French coast the ...

Published: Sunday 30 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1562 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LORD GOUT’S DAUGHTER WEEK OF TENSION AND STILL- ? The bride uniform JHE Hon Jacqueline Vereker only daughter of ..

... bombed enemy troop concentrations columns and infantry and artillery positions successfully The number of prisoners taken near Dunkirk has been raised to 88000 In the course of our armed reconnaissance over the British east and south coast several British ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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