Refine Search

Countries

Place

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England

Access Type

8

Type

6
2

Public Tags

No tags available

GLOUCESTERS' C.O. A PRISONER

... Territorials. In the present war he was engaged with his regiment in the 8.E.F.. and was with the rearguard in Flanders during the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was at first reported missing, but is now known to have been taken prisoner. Col. Gilmore, who ...

Published: Thursday 25 July 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LOCAL OFFICERS AND MEN IN WAR CASUALTY LISTS

... Territorials. In the present war he was engaged with his regiment in the 8.E.F., and was with the rearguard in Flanders during the evacuation from Dunkirk. He was at first reported missing, but is nowknown to have been taken prisoner. Col. Gilmore, who ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1931 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MISSING MEN NOW SAFE

... Cheltenham Telephone Exchange for about six months when war was declared and he was called up. He was known to be fighting in Flanders, and on June 17 his parents received notification that he was missing. On Thursday, however, they were delighted to receive ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SPIKIT OF THE GLOUCESTERS Sir, —I am one of the chaps who recently returned from Dunkirk

... granted leave, but my condition gave me trouble and I was admitted here on Tuesday last. It was a marvellous feat to evacuate us from Flanders, but all the praise is due to our gallant Navy and Air Force, and, although no one has mentioned it, the cheerful ...

Published: Thursday 18 July 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WOUNDED AND MISSING NOW SAFE

... Welford since the end of May, when he was seen in charge of a party of men in northern France. Shortly after the Dunkirk evacuation Mrs. Welford received a telegram to the effect that her son had been reported wounded and missing, and official publication ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MISSING MEN NOW SAFE

... the that he is a prisoner of war in L> *hy. Walter Ernest Berry, in the Gloucestershire Regiment, l e P° r ted missing in Flanders on Ao, and corse lawn men MISSING (of relatives of Driver Leslie Niblett offl R-A.), of Tirley, have received that? 01 ? ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A MEMORABLE DAY

... bondage by the evacuation at Dunkirk. On Wednesday he was compelled to fire on naval comrades who for nine months past have together withstood the might of Germany, and on ships and men that probably took a hand in saving the men from the Flanders battlefields ...

Published: Friday 05 July 1940
Newspaper: Gloucestershire Echo
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 650 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHELTONIAN CHATTER

... hear is not necessarily in their back gardens. During the 1914-18 war it was possible plainly to hear the cannonading in Flanders at least as far away as mid- Sussex, a distance of, say, 100 miles as the crow flies. THE LIGHTER SIDE A local officer ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1940
Newspaper: Cheltenham Chronicle
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1216 | Page: 4 | Tags: none