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NAVAL GUNNER WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK

... NAVAL GUNNER WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK One of Four Broughty Brothers with the Forces News ha? been received that Seaman Gunner W. P. Nicoll, at first feared lost, has been wounded when his ship, the gunboat Mosquito. was sunk while evacuating troops from DuiHiirk ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 476 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FIFE MAN STAYED AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK TO LOOK AFTER WOUNDED Private Charles Brown of the Dental Corps, son of Mrs Brown, Wardlaw Street, Cowdenbeath, is one of the few soldiers left at Dunkirk after the evacuation. When only the injured and a few others remained at Dunkirk if was ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRINCESS SENDS SWEETS TO MEN FROM DUNKIRK

... TO MEN FROM DUNKIRK The War Office announces that a j gift of sweets was to-day received at the Army Comforts Depot at Reading from Princess Elizabeth for distribution to some of the British ! and French troops who have returned from Dunkirk. ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SOLDIER GETS TELEGRAM SAYING HE IS MISSING

... SOLDIER GETS TELEGRAM SAYING HE IS MISSING Trooper Thomas Kennedy, on leave after evacuation from Dunkirk, answered the knock at the door of his home in Vernon Street, Belfast yesterdav and was handed telegram. It was from the War Office saying that ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Local Men in Hospital

... missing, in Maidstone hospital suffering from shock and exposure. He was rescued itrom one of the vessels lost during the Dunkirk evacuation. This is Allan’s second thrilling escape this year, as he was on the Sultan Star when it was torpedoed February ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 80 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

260,000 “WALKED PLANK” TO SAFETY

... 260,000 “WALKED PLANK” TO SAFETY ADMIRAL'S STORY OF DUNKIRK A small band of junior officers, working * secret control room known as the dynamo room naval base on the south-east coast of England, helped to direct the evacuation which saved more than ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

New B.E.F. Has Gone To France

... hundred tributaries the stream gathered power. This B.E.F. is new in men and material, but it has the same spirit as shown at Dunkirk. On the train coaches the men had chalked the usual warnings to Hitler, and one new symbol—an arrow pointing To Rome. From ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Leading Seaman Robert K. Clark

... hut this wa- cancelled Rescued off Dunkirk. Aide Seaman John Blue-. Airlic* Crescent, who been home leave this week, was one of the crew of H M S. Basilisk, which wa- lost during the evacuation the B.E.F from Dunkirk. He wa- rescued after swimming for ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Hardy’s Captain Is First V.C. Of War

... Narvik are five D.S.O.s, six D.S.C.s, and 18 D.S.M.s. HONOURS FOR NAVY'S DUNKIRK HEROES DOVER COMMANDER RECEIVES K.C.B. The first list of honours to the navy' heroes of Dunkirk is published in supplement to the London Gazette Awards are made for good ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 302 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SUNDAY

... personalities. Seven arrests in Dundee. TUESDAY Announced that the last of the British and French troops had been evacuated from Dunkirk. Mr Churchill revealed that 335,000 men had been saved. B.E.F. casualties, killed, wounded and missing were over 30,000. But ...

SPORTS TOPICS i• • •

... pyjama suits, 30.000 dressing 'gowns, and tens of thousands of slippers was necessitated by the return of the troops from Dunkirk. the Red Cross and St John War Organisation have announce I. Recent fighting has resulted great losses of Red Cross material ...

CANARY SANG WHILE THE GUNS ROARED

... Gunner Watts, a married man with two children adopted Bill as & mascot, and he and the canary were safely evacuated from Dunkirk. ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 84 | Page: 1 | Tags: none