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Heroes of Dunkirk

... Heroes of Dunkirk PHE King, who travelled to the west country yesterday to decorate officer heroes of the Dunkirk evacuation, made sixty miles' tour of a division in the Southern Command. Wherever he went the King was impressed, he said, by the excellent ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 204 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK HEROES

... DUNKIRK HEROES THE QUEEN TALKS TO When the Queen informally visited the Overseas Club, London, yesterday, a number of New Zealand and Canadian airmen, Newfoundland troops, South African sailors, and nurses from overseas, including some Australian nurses ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CIVILIANS KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... CIVILIANS KILLED AT DUNKIRK Sir Adrian Baillie in the House of Commons yesterday asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of civilians killed and wounded in aiding Royal Navy to remove men of the B.E.F. and French Army from Dunkirk. Sir V. Warrender ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SCHOOL MEALS

... by the Government. Nine Days Without Food Or Water Off Dunkirk Details of the rescue of nine French soldiers by a British fast motor boat some time after the withdrawal of Allied troops from Dunkirk have become known. For nine days these survivors had existed ...

Published: Thursday 20 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Your local Registrar, R.N.R., at Fishery Officer will give you full

... things we have seen in their a resourcefulness, an inventiveness, a | fine flower in the exploit of Dunkirk. knack of adapting old and unexpected | Dunkirk was no victory—but it was an means to great and unexpected ends, a | earnest of victory. power to ...

SUICIDE SHIPS AT ST VALERY

... boat. TOYS TO FIGHT TANKS It was bloody murder, this volunteer said. The miracle of Dunkirk was not to repeated. St Valery has high cliffs, not a beach like Dunkirk. There was a heavy fog. the sea was rough, and the Germans were ready for us this time ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Three Brothers Captured Three Bridge of Allan brothers. Privates John. Donald. and Aikman Campbell, 5 Cawdor ..

... Privates John. Donald. and Aikman Campbell, 5 Cawdor Road. Bridge of Allan. have been reported as taken prisoners of war near Dunkirk. Intimation of this was sent by an officer of the Black Watch, with which regiment the three men were serving. ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 50 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

GREAT ADVANTAGES

... advantage.: to the defenders will be very great. We hope to improve upon the rate of three or four to one which was realised at Dunkirk. and in addition to all injured machines and their crews which get down safely. and there are a great many. surprisingly many ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NORTH-EAST ITEMS

... to the reception of evacuee children. * * * Portsoy soldiers and sailors who were recently in action in Belgium and in the Dunkirk area and were home on leave were entertained at a supper and dance by friends irt the town. Provost M'Lean presided. * * * ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUICIDE OR XPEDITION ,/,ANT BID TO SAVE ENCIRCLED TROOPS

... lifted into the boat. It was bloody murder, this voluns teer said. The miracle of Dunkirk was not to be repeated. St Valery has high cliffs, not a beach like Dunkirk. There was a heavy fog, the sea was rough, and the Germans were ready for us this time ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 501 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SOLDIER FATALLY SHOT

... Munro was helped by Mr Stanley E.rck. an attendant. who went into the water with a life line. NAZI BURIED AMONG HEROES OF DUNKIRK With a SW::SLka rag over the coffin. and men of the R.A.F. as bearers. a German airman. killed during Tuesday night's raid ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 386 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BROKEN-HEARTED

... Civilian Losses In Dunkirk Rescue Sir Adrian Baillie in the House of Commons to-day asked the First Lord of the Admiralty the number of civilians killed and wounded in aiding the Royal Navy to remove mcn of the B.E.F. and French Armv from Dunkirk. Sir V. Warrender ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: 1 | Tags: none