... beaches of Dunkirk. Other dramatic accounts of the evacuation have been given in letters, and below we give extracts from the narratives told. CALM TO STORM. HELL ON EARTH. QUIET DAYS IN FRANCE, TO AND FRO IN BELGIUM, CHATBURN MAN'S STORY OF DUNKIRK BEACH ...

... DUNKIRK DRAMA CLITHEROE B.E.F. MEN DESCRIBE EVACUATION. NARROW ESCAPES. A vivid description of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk was given to an Advertiser and Times reporter by several men of the Clitheroe Territorials, who were on leave ...

... Local Officer Missing from Dunkirk ANY INFORMATION WILL BE WELCOMED BY PARENTS. QECOND-LIEUT. GUY M. ROBINSON, the East Lancashire Regiment. is amongst those missing in the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was last seen on the beach directing some of his men ...

... • • • Another Clitheroe lad writing home said : The sands of Dunkirk were like Blackpool on a summer afternoon. You simply could not move for men, and it was an experience I shall never forget as long as I live. - - - - Further reference to the hardship ...

... any of his companions were quite sure of the actual day, let alone the date. Describing events at Dunkirk. he says : We are now on the coast above Dunkirk, and are in the same plight as our second line were in Norway. The most part of our lads, however ...

... ENEMY RUSES. Two days before the battery reached Dunkirk. German 'planes dropped pamphlets with maps showing the relative positions of the Allied and German armies. We just didn't believe that we were surrounded. said one gunner, but we found out ...

... cover. Finally they were ferried across another river in a folding dinghy. This occurred shortly before the evacuation from Dunkirk, and Captain Southworth was one of the last men of the B.E.F. to be taken off. Home on leave for 48 hours during the week-end ...

... evacuation started and ended in the miraculous way it did less than a week later. The preacher went on to say that the name Dunkirk meant Church of the Sands. and he expressed the hope that some da a memorial chapel would be erected there. dedicated ...

... the things of God, and in the spirit in which He had taught us—service, sacrifice, faith and prayer. FATHER KOPP SUGGEST! DUNKIRK MEMORIAL. On Saturday morning Requiem Mass for the fallen was said by each priest at SS. Michael and John's Church. The Rector ...

... of, we shall win. * * * Following on the completion of the evacuation of the B.E.F. and so many of our gallant Allies from Dunkirk, Sunday next might well be made a Day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God, and in particular in our own churches and chapels for ...

... skipper was read. He apologised for delay in acknowledging the gift. We have been rather busy in bringing soldiers back from Dunkirk. he said. Altogether, we brought back 600 and I may mention that they got the bulk of your toffee. It would be interesting ...

... the Person willing to act as hon. secretary to the group.—Yours faithfully, H. GREGSON Hon. Local Secretary. NSWERS TO L.C.—Dunkirk (Dunkerque) is in France, Department Nord. on the Straits of Dover. 152 miles north of Paris, and 53 miles north-west of Lille ...