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Grand Work at Dunkirk

... Grand Work at Dunkirk Sir Godfrey then outlined the part played by the lifeboats during the evacuation of Dunkirk. Only one boat failed to return from that episode although all suffered damage. The Ramsgate boat alone had been responsible for the safe ...

oriro DUNKIRK

... oriro DUNKIRK By midnight the crew was found. and at `i.3o a.m. we were uuder weigh down river, refuelling and taking on stores and water as we went. At Si p.m. we reported to our destination and were given further instruetions to proceed to a south-east ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: West London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MARRIED ON RETURN FROM DUNKIRK

... MARRIED ON RETURN FROM DUNKIRK Mr. W. N. Fulham and Miss F. Harding At St. Mark's Church. Hanwell, on Thursday of last week, the marriage took place of Mr. W. Nevill Fulham and Miss Frances Harding. The bridegroom. who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fulham ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: West Middlesex Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 320 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

East Ham Scout's Dunkirk Escape

... East Ham Scout's Dunkirk Escape A SIENBER of the lit East Smut Trap, P./L. S. Crabb arrived home solely after a narrow amps from when his (P./L. Crabb Is in the Royal Navy) was sunk during the Dunkirk epie. P./L. Crabb ems en H.M. destroyer Wakeful ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: West Ham and South Essex Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO MAKE POSSIBLE THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION. The defence of Calais was one of the magnificent stands made by Allied ..

... TO MAKE POSSIBLE THE DUNKIRK EVACUATION. The defence of Calais was one of the magnificent stands made by Allied troops which made possible the evacuation of the armies the Germans imagined they had trapped in Flanders; and the men seen in this photograph ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

Mother's Birthday Gift From Flanders ABIRTHDAY present sent off by her soldier son in Flanders before the ..

... Mother's Birthday Gift From Flanders ABIRTHDAY present sent off by her soldier son in Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. A. Greig, of Bonnygate, Coupar Angus. The parcel, battered and torn, was found by Private A ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 183 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

`NOT A COWARD': LIFEBOAT MAN

... to take the boat to Dunkirk and put her on the sands. We pointed out that meant a useless sacrifice of the boat. It takes a 25 h.p. steam winch and fifty people to get the boat over the sands here. If we had taken it to Dunkirk and beached it and filled ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 448 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

MATES PAID SOLDIER'S RENT DEBT

... MATES PAID SOLDIER'S RENT DEBT VI A DUNKIRK soldier's home, where his wife and their nine children under 12 are living, has been saved by his battery of the Royal Artillery subscribing £7 towards his rent arrears. At Edmonton County Court yesterday Captain ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OTHER AIRCRAFT TO CLOSE FORMATION

... TO CLOSE FORMATION. NEWS— 843 Continued ,\ of gallant deeds during the Dunkirk evacuation concerned three Hud sons of the Coastal Command. On Saturday, June 1, they were off Dunkirk when they en countered forty enemy aircraft about to bomb the transports ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

THANKS TO THE NAVY

... THANKS TO THE NAVY As he waited on the shell-pounded beach at Dunkirk with oas of the last British contingents to leave the port Driver Ward, aged 43. said to a comrade: I am to be married in three weeks' time. What are the chances? You'll he there ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Lewisham Borough News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 180 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRIDAY. JUNE

... station. O'Sullivan said. I was collecting all right, bnt Ldid not tell anyone he had come from Dunkirk. Hamill said, •• I have never been to Dunkirk. As a matter of fact I have been absent from the unit since last Saturday. Witness showed the list ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Fulham Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 792 | Page: 1 | Tags: none