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ROLL OF HONOUR Lance

... competitions, including the Pyke Cup. His father was killed in the Great War and his younger brother was in the Dunkirk evacuation. Captain Douglas Stokes, -Royal Artillery, of Wrexham, son-in-law of Aiderman Herbert Hampson, an ex-Mayor of Wrexham, who ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 768 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BEFRIENDED DOGS

... the animals they rescued in France and Flanders, has given rise to a new need on the part of the U.S.P.C.A. in Birmingham. Quarantine kennels are being established in the city, in order that some of the evacuated dogs may be cared for till their soldier ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PETAIN SEIZES 150 PLANES -BUT MANY ARE HERE

... Institut Francais, w.ho interviewed him, was that the Germans captured 350,000 men in the first phase of the great battle in Flanders and later 600,000 in France—whereas only 60,000 were killed, with perhaps 300,000 more wounded. The French Army was organised ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 246 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

AROUND AN

... regiment. It was sung at home, it was sung in France, it was sung in Flanders, and, once again, it is going strong in England. I Interested and amused to hear that the Ulstemen who were evacuated with the British Expeditionary Force indulged little propaganda ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 321 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ARTILLERYMAN RELIEVED A PRISONER

... Harker. Essex House, Etlen Park, Lancaster. who has many friends in Penrith and district, was reported miming after the evacuation of Flanders via Dunkirk towards th, end of May and is now believed in be a prisoner of war. Gunner Barker *sad the Lancaster battery ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1940
Newspaper: Penrith Observer
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FOUGHT REARGUARD ACTION

... fought the gallant rearguard action in Flanders, allowing the majority of the men of the B.E.F. to reach England safely from Dunkirk. Devon House School was amalgamated with Cliftonville School, which ha* been evacuated to Eastbourne. Capt. Walker was formerly ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1940
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

a.f. VISIT TO KIEL NAVAL BASE

... Committees of the ai ber and Senate on the the evacuation of l rth Bukovina, accordst telegram to the Stefani Berlin, July 2 An official account of the German losses from May 10, when the battle for Flanders began, to the armistice with France—issued from ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1328 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE WAY OF THE WAR: The King's Part

... Ministerial opposition. His Desire to Visit the Front T n the last testing days of the rearguard action which culminated in the evacuation from Dunkirk the King begged that he might be allowed to visit the British Army in the field. He felt that in some degree ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3117 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

SOLUTION TO CRYPTIC CROMWORD

... defences of the country. They played a creditable part in the recent operation in Flanders and France. They formed part of the rear-guard which defended Boulogne during the evacuation and also took part in ■,he defence of Dunkirk. De Gaulle Appoints Arms Chief ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 544 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD MILNE'S POST

... of the country. They played a creditable part in the recent operations in Flanders and France. They formed part of the rear-guard which defended Boulogne during the evacuation, and also took part in the defence of Dunkirk. ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 128 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PIONEER CORPS

... defences the country. They played creditable part In the recdnt operation in Flanders and France. They formed part of the rear-guard which defend Boulogne during the evacuation and also took part the defence of Dunkirk, ...

Published: Wednesday 03 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PREMIER'S STATEMENT

... the defences the country. They played creditable part the recent operation in Flanders and France. They formed part of the rearguard which defended Boulogne during the evacuation, and also took part la the defence of Dunkirk. Hull stipendiary Magistrate ...