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DUNKIRK CIVILIAN LOSSES

... DUNKIRK CIVILIAN LOSSES Sir Victor Warrender said 126 civilians were killed and 81 wounded In aiding the Navy to remove men of the B.E.P. and the french army from Dunkirk. Pour of the killed and two wounded were civilian volunteers. and the rest men of ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THRILLING ESCAPE FROM FRANCE

... THRILLING ESCAPE FROM FRANCE Second Adventure of Leeds Officer Who Went Back After Dunkirk p 1 VACUATED with the B.E.F. from Dunkirk, Second-Lieut. Richard Camrasa, a Leeds officer, went back France and was shortly afterwards reported missing. To-day ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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 ...

Fighting Men Lost All-Then Came Fund Parcels

... be third time across the Channel since last February . . . . TIMELY CIGARETTES Driver J. H. Marshall, who got back from Dunkirk, has some critical comment to make, with characteristic detachment. I have been all over Northern France and Belgium, and ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HULL CASUALTIES

... parents of Private T. F. Pinder, aged 20 of 11, 14th-A venue, North Hull Estate, ttfat he was wounded during the evacuation of Dunkirk, and is now in hospital in England. ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 237 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PREMIERS SPEECH

... PREMIERS SPEECH. The Premier, after referring to the disaster in Northern France which culminated in Dunkirk, said that after fruit. only three British divisions or their equivalent were able to stand in line with the French. We sent every man we could ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MAN-POWER

... exception to what Major Milner said. Mr. Eden announced that free ravelling warrants issued to men ..1 the REP. from Dunkirk who went on leave applied also to troops recently evacuated from He hoped. except where the ..xizeneics of the service had ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PREMIER'S SPEECH

... threw out of action for critical period whole of B.E.F. Our army and 120 000 French trccps were indeed rescued by Navy from Dunkirk, but cn'y with loss of all aquipmcnt. This loss inevitably took weeks to repair, and first two of those weeks battle in France ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SENDING THE CHILDREN TO CANADA Announcement to be Mad' Shortly It is understood a state:nen: s to be issued shortly

... Victuallers Association - colieeting scl-Ame. 6ih '2 i ns talment . .. Issue of socks to soldiers • • returned from Dunkirk 2 Proceeds of sale of scrap iron collected by scholars o M f r. eitin Nuton ntYlide, School. per • • .• .• 0 ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 271 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHY FRANCE HAS SOUGHT TERMS

... and partly on that other observers. The B.EJP*. never had a chance to become a real army again after the evacuation from Dunkirk, but It fought the German* wltn everything but teeth, one subaltern put after three solid weeks under fire. The B.EJP. positions ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 297 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HALIFAX COMFORTS FUND -- Gifts in Kind

... Miss Laycock. (Niles, Mrs. Osborn*, Miss Crowther, Mrs. King, Mrs. Speak, Mytholmroyd Comforts Fund 140 P.I7S, :or men from Dunkirk.. Miscellaneous. Warloy Congregational ireh per Mrs. scarves, pul:overs. ocks, Town Women's Guild per Mrs. Stephenson.. socks ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 3 | Tags: none