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Great Achiévement of Evacuation from Dunkirk

... from Dunkirk. As intimated by the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons on Tuesday, a total of 330,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force and of the French and Belgian Armies, had been evacuated to England through Dunkirk, a ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 262 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SMALL CRAFT USED AT

... SMALL CRAFT USED AT DUNKIRK Small craft , which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation , being towed past the Houses of Parliament on their way up the Thames yesterday . ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 31 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Campbeltown Coincidence At Dunkirk Remarkable Story Of The Evacuation

... Campbeltown Coincidence At Dunkirk Remarkable Story Of The Evacuation A Campbeltown seaman who took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk was involved in a remarkable coincidence in the thick of the fighting. He was a member of the crew of the Gracie Fields ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Campbeltown Courier
County: Argyll, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MEN FROM DUNKIRK HAD TO WALK HOME

... MEN FROM DUNKIRK HAD TO WALK HOME Mr A. Sloan (Ayr and Bute, Lab.) is to ask the Secretary for War next Tuesday whether he is aware “that men of the British Expeditionary Force who arrived in England from Dunkirk were not supplied with railway vouchers ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INDIAN REMANDED ~ DEATH OF SOLDIER EVACUATED FROM DUNKIRK

... INDIAN REMANDED ~ DEATH OF SOLDIER EVACUATED FROM DUNKIRK One of the soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk suffered fatal injuries following a quarrel which broke out during a dance in a Liverpool hotel. This was disclosed at Liverpool Police Court to-day, ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LEFT AT DUNKIRK FIFE MAN HAD TO ATTEND WOUNDED

... LEFT AT DUNKIRK FIFE MAN HAD TO ATTEND WOUNDED It has been learned that Pte. Charles B. Brown, Army Dental Corps, 18 Mossside Road, Cowdenbeath, was left on hospital duty in Dunkirk. An officer of the R.A.M.C., who has reached England, has written to ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 4 | 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

NAVAL HEROES 1 First List of Dunkirk Honours DOVER COMMANDER'S ILC , B FIRST BATTLE OF NARVIK THE MINESWEEPER ..

... NAVAL HEROES 1 First List of Dunkirk Honours DOVER COMMANDER'S ILC , B FIRST BATTLE OF NARVIK THE MINESWEEPER SPHINX The first list of honours to the Navy ' s heroes of Dunkirk is published in a ¦ supplement to the London . Gazette . The following awards ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1853 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AMERICAN LINER —*—Torpedo Threat by a Submarine ALLOWED TO PROCEED Not a British Craft BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES ..

... 000 tons were lost during the Dunkirk operations . Excluding Dunkirk , the figures were : — Ships . Tonnage . British 11 54 , 715 Allied . „„„„„; , „ 4 17 . 913 Neutral 3 7 , 923 18 80 , 551 The losses at Dunkirk must be regarded as far less than ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 703 | Page: 8 | Tags: none