... FLANDERS COAST BATTLE REARGUARD PUTTING UP TERRIFIC FIGHT EVACUATED B.E.F. MEN IN GOOD SPIRITS ...

... the actual evacuation from Dunkirk. He was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. E. Francis. of Chatley Furlong. Norton fit. Philip. who had two sons--Lanee-Corporal Edward Francis and Corporal Arthur • son-in-1•w Da;id Hennessy of London—serving in Flanders. They were ...

... several weeks, but knew that he had been in the Flanders fighting. Priv. Foster had written to his parents several times and posted one letter immediately after he arrived back in England following the evacuation from Dunkirk, but none of the letters had reached ...

... visitation.” THE KING’S MOVING MESSAGE Disaster into Triumph, A moving message of admiration and sympathy for the heroes of the Flanders rearguard battle has been received from the King by Mr. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. It reads ...

... Church Music, has embarked on a country-wide mission of salvaging choral music from the ruin wrought by the war. Owing to evacuation, many choirboys are in districts where they are getting no musical training Therefore, singlehanded, but with the approval ...

... from Flanders— rescued from the jaws of death as the Premier put it—together with their French and Belgium confreres—and the whole country pays its tribute to their courageous and indomitable spirit, which alone helped to make the evacuation of our ...

... heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, and His Majesty made a 60-miles tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went he was impressed, he said, by the excellent health and spirits of the troops after their ordeal in Flanders. Amongst the officers ...

... WORK BY NAVY AND AIR FORCE The B.E.F, rearguard and their French and Belgian comrades are fighting a terrific battle on the Flanders coast against 1,000,000 Nazi soldiers. Bitter fighting is going on in the fortified area of Dunkirk, while the withdrawal ...

... as one who represented the great host of those who had gained imperishable fame in the magnificent stand they had made in Flanders. Sapper Beavan was one of the fortunate ones, inasmuch as he had escaped without a scratch, though he bore obvious marks ...

... and bravery shown by the three Services and the merchant navy the evacuation of the B.E.F. General Lord Gort the man who led the British Expeditionary Force out of the helj ot Flanders, came back to England on and received from the hands of the King the ...

... some years, he leaves two daughters. Overseas Evacuation. Parents of children between the ages of five and 16 attending grant aided schools in Weymouth, who are interested in the Government's overseas evacuation scheme, can obtain the necessary forms from ...

... Dunkirk Evacuation. Residents of Sherborne district, and hunting people in particular, heard with great regret that Capt. the Hon. Lionel Lambart. D.S.O. R.N.. was lost when H.M.S. Grive, which he commanded, was sunk in the Dunkirk evacuation operations ...