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VOLUNTEER AT DUNKIRK

... VOLUNTEER AT DUNKIRK. Mr Attlee told the w gs er yesterday that the to .„iis of those who helped ij osS e Dunkirk, but it wasi not complete record ot '--^''^ gave their services. , th e f * Mr Ellis Smith afJ e ueS tiO® V. would consider the o iW c ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 82 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES

... DUNKIRK HEROES Mr Attlee said a record was being kept of those who helped in the operations at Dunkirk. but it Na , not possible to have a complete record of those who gallantly gave thei rservices. Mr Ellis Smith asked if the Government %%mild consider ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HOW DUNKIRK MIRACLE WAS ACHIEVED

... imagination for a ship alongside. The use of this pier was the inspiration of our fell-ows at Dunkirk. Captain Tennant. who was in charge of operations at Dunkirk, and his band of men guided the men to the ships. Narrow mess tables were put across like planks ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 492 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Honours for Navy's Dunkirk Heroes

... Honours for Navy's Dunkirk Heroes THE first list of honours to the Navy's heroes of Dunkirk is published a supplement to the London Gazette. Awards are made for good services in organising the withdrawal to England, under fire and in the face of many ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 444 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

t Naval Honours For Dunkirk

... t Naval Honours For Dunkirk list of honours to the Navy's heroes of Dunkirk are made for good services in organising the withal to Britain, under fire and in the face of many Teat difficulties, of 335,490 officers and men of the Armies in about 1000 ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 435 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK. THE CORUNNA LINE. Memory of an Epic Retreat. (By A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT,

... DUNKIRK. THE CORUNNA LINE. Memory of an Epic Retreat. (By A MILITARY CORRESPONDENT, When the Allied Armies, withdrawing to the coast after the collapse of the main Belgian forces, placed a ring round Dunkirk and the adjacent coast the defended periphery ...

NEW B.E.F. IS IN FRANCE MEN WITH SAME SPIRIT AS DUNKIRK HEROES

... spirit that brought about the marvel of Dunkirk. On the train's coaches they had chalked the usual warnings to Hitler and one new symbol—an arrow pointing To Rome. Some of those going back went through the Dunkirk hell—and are raring to get back to France ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 672 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

USSOLINI

... THOMAS KENon leave after from Dunkirk, •- - the knock at the o f his home in Vernon t Belfast, and was teleM. from the gra War Office that he was missing. Kennedy said that he ; t i l ers made the last part golourney to Dunkirk in eels dustcart. ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 56 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AIRMAN TOWED BY MINESWEEPER

... AIRMAN TOWED BY MINESWEEPER Flying Officer Robert New, of Cardiff, who was on patrol during the Dunkirk evacuation, had a remarkable escape when, although wounded, he dropped 8000 feet by parachute before being towed to safety by a minesweeper. The control ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... Patterson Skipper Mair Missing in Dunkirk Evacuation A well-known member of the motor trade in Aberdeen. C.S.M. Frederick Patterson, Royal Army Service Corps, has been posted missing, believed drowned, in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He was • partner of Mr Charles ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The King

... The King Decorates Dunkirk Heroes The King to-day decorated officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation dui•- ;ng a sixty-mile tour of a division of troops in the Southern Command. Three officers who received the D.S.O. were: Lieut.-Col. Desmond liarrson ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DIRECT LINK

... • . 0 3 3 Dunkirk and Other Shipping Losses The Admiralty announce that the total British mercantile tonnage lost by enemy action in the week ending midnight Sunday. June 2, was 78.715 tons. of which 24.000 tons were lost during the Dunkirk operations ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: 5 | Tags: none