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FOUR OAKS FLANDERS HERO WEDS

... FOUR OAKS FLANDERS HERO WEDS WARWICKSHIRE hero of the fighting in Flanders brought to England wounded in the Dunkirk evacuation, was married in London to-day. He is 2nd-Lieut. D. F. W. Hanmer, of the Royal Warwickshires, only son of the late Frank Hanmer ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 450 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

We Are Winning

... losing the war of words? Are we having to retreat to prepared positions for lack of adjectives? Are we evacuating the rostrum as evacuated Norway and Flanders? Not a bit of It! On the contrary we have established a superiority of eloquence which. If maintained ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 175 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK A South Elmsall lad who was evacuated from Dunkirk is William Howes (26), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howes, of 8. Chapel Lane. William is a member of a family with a remarkable record in the last war, in which his father, three brothers ...

Cutty Sark Club

... be out and around deck again. The Cutty Sark Club salutes the men who manned the miscellaneous craft in evacuating our gallant soldiers from Flanders. They showed a courage that the love of the sea demands—a courage that helps to win wars. Winnipeg. W. ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Journal of Commerce
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ONE ON KILLED BEACH

... Thomson was killed in action near Moeres in Flanders during the Dunkirk evacuation. He was a machine-gunner and a member of the rearguard action. He was killed less than six hours before the last troops from Flanders left Dunkirk shore. . He, with a small ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Newcastle Evening Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 320 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

hospital notes

... well, Private John Haworth, of 110. Wlndsor-road. has been home on 48 hours’ leave, after a stirring time Flanders, culminating the Dunkirk evacuation. He called on me for a friendly chat, writes Observer reporter. What made me particularly glad to see ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Bexhill-on-Sea Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 310 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

BRITAIN--A Country United: Now That the Enemy is at the Threshold, This is What the Nation is Doing to Counter ..

... officers and men who fought in Flanders and more recently in France. All of them state that refugees were the greatest menace and hindrance, which is why I welcome the expectation of the Government announcement of compulsory evacuation plans. In their numbers ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1579 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

FROM DUNKIRK

... FROM DUNKIRK A South Elmsall lad who was evacuated from Dunkirk is William 'Howes (26), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howes. of 8. Chapel Lane. William is a member of a family with a remarkable record in the last war, in which his father, three brothers ...

SOME SOUTH YORKSHIRE MEN WITH H.M. FORCES

... a member of the Mill Lane Mission and Boy Scouts associated with the Mission. FROM DUNKIRK A South Elmsall lad who was ' evacuated from Dunkirk is William Howes (26), elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W Howes, of 8. Chapel Lane. William is a member of a family ...

LOCAL OFFICERS AND MEN IN WAR CASUALTY LISTS

... will be relieved to learn that Capt. R. B. de F. Sleeman, O.St.J., officially reported as missing since the last battle in Flanders, which covered the embarkation of the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, is now reported to be safe, but a prisoner of war in Germany. T ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3336 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CUT OUT ONE IN FOUR

... were halved. Then Cotton equalled them the French officer's wife and ago show us, poignantly, a glimpse of vary Schcols (evacuated). Leamington, the score and saved the match with child. that much more poetic generation Let them all go, says a Coventry ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Coventry Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 5254 | Page: 3 | Tags: none