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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

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

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 ...

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

OUR SHIPPING LOSSES

... Alt 11 ■ »■' Excluding to 11 if British 11 ships, 9 ' w' 1 17,913 tons; neutral J ~|IJ 18 ships, 80,551 tons- ,] Losses at Dunkirk e far less than might e ( such operation of vessels were emp'f hazardous conditwn,' \flr, i 1 Up to last y Allied and neutral ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BANKERS’ NEW PRESIDENT

... president of the Institute of Bankers in Scotland, paid tribute to the bank men who had taken part, in the epic of heroism at the Dunkirk evacuation. Mr William Whyte, general manager of Royal Bank of Scotland, was elected to succeed Mr Erskine as president, and ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Mr Morrison's Three Reasons for Hope

... fully awake and would mobilise as never before, and the British knack of drawing down achievement almost from the emptv air Dunkirk was instance this. I commend it to you as a oortent. said. '* In that sign we shall conquer. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 8 | Tags: none