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WILL BE STOPPED

... insignia of the K.C.B. Vice-Admiral Ramsey played a leading part in the arrangements for the evacuation of the B.E.F, from Dunkirk. ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 361 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Wreck an Aerodrome

... inflicted heavy damage. SQUADRON'S RECORD This success was achieved by a squadron of Spitfires, which, in a single day during the Dunkirk evacua- R.A.F. bombers also mode a daylight attack the enemy-occupied aerodrome, Waalhaven, near Rotterdam, and returned safely ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 337 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

esserschmitts—and win

... inflicted This Spitfire squadron shot down 10 German fighters and one army co-operation plane in a single day during the Dunkirk evacuation. R.A.F. plaster new Nazi * drome in Norway A Nazi aerodrome at Bomoen. near Bergen, Norway, was left in flames ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 335 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A Government of India Precaution

... equipment of every kind compared with a quarter of a century ago, the Fund has suffered a heavy loss. In the withdrawal from Dunkirk all the ambulances in Flanders were lost and, although a considerable quantity of stores was got away to another part of France ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 434 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS

... K. Manger.— He has brought down at least five enemy planes. Once when had to descend by parachute landed in the sea near Dunkirk pier, but was rescued a French craft. Pilot Officer P. P. Woods-Scawen.— He ha? accounted for six enemy aircraft, and has ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Local People

... the small village of gray stone houses. It has brought life and excitement. There a man from the Merchant Service home from Dunkirk with his arm in a sling. He has seen the Jerries and scorns them ; knows we are going to win the war. At the village dance ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 437 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

kONUS KEMIK

... W.C.I, we will endeavour to trace their whereabouts. I am informed that a number of French !,uldters, wers evacuated fiom Dunkirk. had their dogs with them, and it is said that a compound was made for some of them in cne of the camps, as their owners objected ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Nuneaton Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 336 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BISHOP ON CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE TO THE SITUATION

... ON CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE TO THE SITUATION In Coventry Diocesan Gazette, the Bishop of Coventry writes that the success of the Dunkirk evacuation has not blinded us to the magnitude of the set-back which we have suffered, *“and we all know now that the utmost ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TWO SPIES SHOT

... France. Lord Dunboyne stated to-day that had received news of his son since May 23, and he understood that he was last seen at Dunkirk. Mr- Butler is 23. ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 452 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

-Now They Want in Birmingham THETRE READY IF THE BOMBERS COME

... have a real go at him,” I was told. The evacuation of these boys was no less of an ordeal than the recent evacuation from Dunkirk. This was how Private W. Ferris, who lives in the Harborne district of Birmingham, described it; We were kilometres from the ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 488 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MERCURY E FOR YOUR JUNK COLLECTION OF SALVAGE TO ime iterlude for refreshment at village Somewhere Britain” he ..

... and said he expected they would stay at a hotel BUP DUNKIRK MAN IN FATAL CRASH John Bewsher 26 of Teston near Maidstone a lance-bombardier in the Kent Yeomnry came safely through the horrors of Dunkirk Motor-cycling on Thursday at Abergele (Denbigh) was ...

Published: Sunday 23 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1439 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

military medal

... areas under heavy mortar and shell fi re - tuns setting fine example of courage to the remainder No. I (Signals) Platoon. At Dunkirk on the night of June 1-2. during the shelling the Mole, this N.C.O. displayed great presence of mind and was invaluable his ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 604 | Page: 8 | Tags: none