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FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK During the court hearing it was stated that both Beattie and Farr were in the evacuation from Dunkirk. Evidence was given that the bullet which hit Farr in the back was fired from the adjoining railway compartment. Fusilier David Simpson ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 275 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LIFEBOATMEN REFUSED TO GO TO DUNKIRK

... LIFEBOATMEN REFUSED TO GO TO DUNKIRK IpOLLOWING a Royal National Lifeboat Institution inquiry into the refusal of the crew of Hythe lifeboat to assist in the B.E.F. evacuation at Dunkirk. the coxswain and motor mechanic have been dismissed from the lifeboat ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

STONEHAVEN COMFORTS FUND

... and these should be handed into the Barclay Street Depot immediately. Quite a number of those who figured in the heroie Dunkirk episode lost all their personal belongings, and the local committee is most anxious to help by every possible means. This ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Mearns Leader
County: Kincardineshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

REMINDING YOU OF CHINA

... hardships he had to endure. It is a long way now firom the days of Musketeer Smite-the-Amalekite Atkins toiling through the Dunkirk sand dunes 1658, armed with flintlock snap chance; the happy warrior this year of grace progresses noislv down the long roads ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 501 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VULNERABLE COASTLINE

... battle. The Nazis fought in formations of two or three, but the British pilots Meted heavy damage. In a single day during the Dunkirk evacuation pilots of this Spitfire squadron shot down tcn German fighters and an army co-operation aircraft, and damaged five ...

Published: Wednesday 26 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MEN IN

... of which they formed part was through heavy fighting in Belgium. finally covering the withdrawal of the Allied armies on Dunkirk. LIEUT, R. G. RHIND Second-Lieu teiiant R. G. Rhind, Cameron Highlanders, is reported miss- Intimation to this effect has ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 404 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

IDEAS FOR L.D.V. SERVICE

... mentality. Perhaps A. M. has not realised the strain and hell which many of the boys whom finds fault with have been through—Dunkirk, for instance. To A. M one could say a great deal in praise of the lads in uniform, but I will close by advising him thus: ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 688 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, JU NE 22, 1940

... ciman to represent the regard to racing. The ea* was wholly one of tram was hardly anticipated t. be any racing in the aorta Dunkirk, which had Kati time. was again bombs.' some civilians killed. F. gress was continued ir. m of recent engagements z Arras ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 746 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ONE WAY TO FORGET YOUR WORRIES

... and Mrs A. Christ-®. 0 Street. Turriff ' . 9 ' ®H Mrs M. Mackie. Middie hain, Inverurie Mrs Gordon, 389 1 MiKtimber 1 ' Dunkirk Vvctric* .= 5 A Friend in New Deer D. 'ii ' 0' U E S. Ross ssC Robert Gordon's Col.®®®* ••* ll.a, lII.c. and , 1 ■* Vnlll ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 831 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TO SERVICEMEN

... they spend th.hr nights at the club, where there is sleeping accommodation for twenty-five men. During the evacuation from Dunkirk this accommodation was stretched to the utmost. Each night Mrs Littlejohn Cook met the last trains arriving at London stations ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Weekly Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1204 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF FRANCE. PREMIER REVIEWS RECENT DISASTERS. THEIR EFFECT ON THE FUTURE. PREPARING FOR BATTLE OF ..

... on the ground in the nemdroméa, we were accustomed to inflict a loss of two to two and a half to one. In the fighting over Dunkirk, which was a sort of No Man’s Land, we undoubtedly beat the German air force and gained a mastery of the local air, inflicting ...