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AN EPISODE OF DUNKIRK

... AN EPISODE OF DUNKIRK Dunkirk will go down in the annals of this country as one of the most heroic episodes in our history. Many of our men attribute their deliverance to the prayers of the nation ; many found in the guidance of God a freedom from fear ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1150 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Letham

... Newlands was home at the Tigerton for a few days' leave. He wan one of the B.E.F. who came safely through the evacuation from Dunkirk. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Careston

... Careston News of Careston men serving with the forces reveals that Robert and James Gordon were in the Dunkirk evacuation. The former was on leave lest week. Alexander Ross, formerly underkeeper at Careston, has also been on leave, having come safely ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRIVATE TO CAPTAIN

... after be was commissioned, and btu since been promoted Cap' tain. He went to France with.' the B.D.F. and went through the Dunkirk evacuation. Captain Hutcheon, who at one time worked on farms in this district, has a brother in the Air Force and another ...

Published: Tuesday 16 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRECHIN HOMING PIGEON SOCIETY

... learn , - ed that Pte. David E. S. Wyllie, Royal Tank Corps, who is in hospital in England with a shrapnel wound received at Dunkirk, was awarded and presented the Croix de Guerre. for helping about 40 French civilians to escape from a temporary German prison ...

Published: Tuesday 23 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 257 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

New Motor Lifeboat for Montrose

... ar to be sent to Canada for internment had arrived at Quebec in charge of 250 British officers and men, all of whom were Dunkirk veterans. The liner conveying the prisoners (the number was not stated) was unescorted on its voyage across the Atlantic. ...

Published: Tuesday 09 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1046 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Hitler's' Last Appeal

... kind of European reorganisation Hitler is contemplating and gave reasons why Nazi Germany is bound to lose. the war. If Dunkirk has any message for us, it is the heartening one that Britain will prove to be an impregnable fortress against which Germany's ...

Published: Tuesday 23 July 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1611 | Page: 8 | Tags: none