... DUNKIRK HERO'S CRUZL LUCK Fate has dealt a cruel blow to Pleat-Class Stoker Thomas Snowden, R.N., of 6, Sydenham-terrace. He was serving on • destroyer which played a notable part In the safe withdrawal of thousands of our troops from Dunkirk. On one ...

... services rendered as staff officer to Admiral responsible for the naval opera in connection with the withdrawal BE?. from Dunkirk. At Dunkirk he aboard Keith when It was sunk enemy action, but he managed to get a boat and reach the shore. He also served aboard ...

... Navigator Pilot. Hls letter continues: Except for our operations at Dunkirk we have had no real excitement other than an occasional air attack and blowing up occasional mines The Dunkirk job was marvellous. though. and ' hot.' As it was, I thoroughly enjoyed ...

... from regimental headquarters had brought the news that he had been killed. Private Tillman revealed that In his escape from Dunkirk lie was three days and three nights on the beach, when the place was continually bombed by German planes. On the fourth day ...

... when it is confirmed from personal experience. State. manta have appeared that the BS,. evacuated. almost beyond hope. from Dunkirk, attributed their escape to the heroic, selfeacrilleng work of the Navy. The other day one of the soldiers, a local lad back ...

... should be sent to the Headmaster. Deep sympathy was expressed for the Rev. N. B Tower (President) In the lose of his sou. at Dunkirk, and his son-in-law, who was killed In an explosion. ...

... valued at E 9 its ed. The Rev. P. Wbeeldon, of the Farnham clergy staff. now serving es an Army chaplain, was evacuated from Dunkirk In • Letter to a friend he states that, having swam for a boat. he climbed up to the deck. where • young sailor declared. ...

... Corporation fire float, formed part of the heterogeneous collection of craft which participated in the evacuation of the from Dunkirk.—Mr. James Woodhams. a well-known Battle resident and • keen amateur yachtsman. had exciting experiences to relate when he ...

... Anglo- French Ambulance Corps, costs 1400. The Mayor told the Council that 43 such arniautaneee were sent to France before the Dunkirk evacuation. and that they were all loot. The corps had now to start again. and there would be even greater need for their ...

... Hooper Johnston. formerly minister of Alton Methodist Church, and now a chaplain to the Forces, was among the evacuees from Dunkirk who crowed the Channel In a destroyer. Re lad hie kit, He spent the week-end at Alton and preached at his old church on Sunday ...

... the way for them. VHS HEROES OF DUNKIRK Guildford has responded nobly In providing refreshments. cigarettes, and fruit for the almost perpetual string of trains that have passed through the town carrying heroes from Dunkirk. Night and day a buffet has oeen ...

... been awarded the Military Medal for coolness under fire when with a convoy which wu intenalvely bombed during the retreat at Dunkirk. The Rev. H. Macßow will terminate his superintendency In the Methodist Church, Peterefleld (Windsor-road Circuit), at the ...