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TA.'ITGIER

... interested powers would be respecte:l Sir Arthur Salter said civilian owners I of small vessels loot in evacuation from I Dunkirk would receive compensation. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TODMORDEN OFFICER AWARDED 0.5.0

... demolition and in personally supervising the orders for blowing up during the withdrawal of the B.E.F. He arrived in England from Dunkirk three weeks ago Lishman. who was promoted to this rank in 1936. joined the Training Corps in 1914 at Manchester Grammar School ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

30,000,000 Bandages

... 000 bandages, but, it is stated, was always contemplated that these reserves 6hould be supplemented local purchases. The Dunkirk evacuation threw a big strain on the emergency scheme, tire more because it was impossible to treat wounded men base hospitals ...

C.O. List Revision

... evening received by M. Losovsky, Soviet Vice-Commissar for Foreign Affairs.—Benter. MISSING CHAPLAINS. Among chaplains in Dunkirk were unaccounted 22 were wounded, and two died of wounds. stated the Bishop of Bradford (Dr. A. W. F. Blunt) at the Bradford ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NAZIS LEARNED THEIR LESSON

... closed. Jn the armies and divisions the morale was good, hut the losses in men and material in the initial operations and at Dunkirk were catastrophic. Subsequent heroism, brilliant tactics and increasing lighting never made up for this initial defeat. ...

IDARFIELD

... White and the late Mr. J White, of School Street, Darfield, arrived home on Monday night on leave after evacuation from Dunkirk. He has had thrilling experiences and came over on a minesweeper, but he is very thankful to be safe and to see again his ...

NORTH-EASTERN GAZETTE, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1940 North War Casualties Middlesbro Man’s Heroic Sacrifice OFFICIAL ..

... Sacrifice OFFICIAL confirmation of the death of her son. George Leunard Johnson, who was killed in action w-ith the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, has been received by Mrs. Florence Johnson, widow, of 36, Rutland-street, Middlesbrough. Johnson’s 19-year-old wife, Pauline ...

WEST MELTON

... _ _ BACK HOME.—Several old scholars of Brampton Ellis Senior School who are now with the Forces and were evacuated from - Dunkirk have dropped in this week to let the school know how they were getting along. CHOIR SUPPER. There was a full gathering of ...

39 DAYS STRUGGLE

... 28.—Belgian Army capitulated by King Leopold's order. June 4. —Prime Minister revealed 335.000 Allied troops rescued from Dunkirk. June 9. —German reconnaissance units reached outskirts of Rouen. June 11. —Germans reached Seine. June 12. —Germans reached ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRENCH TROOPS SCATTERED

... with mechanised columns and ’planes, which needed such large quantities of petrol, if the Allies had not suffered heavily at Dunkirk. And if it liad 'been .possible for the French to hold the Germans on the Seine and the Somme, it is possible that a defeat ...

WORTLEY

... council. SER /ICE ITEMS. Two men whose names appear on the Wortley register of service hav been evacuated with the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. They are L/Cpl. F. Walker and L/Cpl. J. Hawkes. Parishioners of Wortley were delighted to welcome the latter last Sunday ...

COD CANNOT WANT NAZIS TO WIN' Bishop of Bradford's Declaratioo

... of our back line. God would give us grace to endure. to believe and to win. The Bishop announced that among chaplains in Dunkirk. 44 were unaccounted for. 32 were wounded and two had died from wounds. The Secretary of State for War, after consultation ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 4 | Tags: none