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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

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 

'HE DAILY MIRRO. NAZI FILM OF DUNKIRK BEAT US

... 'HE DAILY MIRRO. NAZI FILM OF DUNKIRK BEAT US W HILE German films, showing the defeat and evacuation of the British Army, were to be seen all over the Balkans, not one British film of the Dunkirk epic was made. This was stated In the House of Commons ...

Published: Thursday 04 July 1940
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 213 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

By CAPTAIN COLIN BAIN-MARAIS

... behind the lines. To me, as it does to others, Bordeaux represents the end of a sad mission. We arrived there after hurried evacuation, from Pernay, near Tours, on the afternoon of June 14 after a hazardous journey. Everyone was in a hurry. The roads were ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1136 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

PRESENTATIONS TO THE REV. J. C. KiNNEAR Former Senior Curate At Parish Church AUCTION AND PROPERTY GUIDE

... ex- perience of Geonrey Kester, of the R.N.V.R tie was on the destroyer, H.M.S. Wakeful, ;luring its participation In the evacuation from Dunkirk, alien she was sunk by enemy action. Geonrey was flung from the bridge into the water. swam about until lie ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2518 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOUTH CROYDON

... feature of last Hundara service address, which was given by Lieut. Beresford Mask who taken part in the retreat from Flanders and the evacuation of Dunkirk. After hours spent on the beach at Dunkirk. Lieut. Mash was taken off On a destroyer which was subsequently ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: Croydon Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DOCTOR “WON” WITH WOUNDED- BALLOT TO STAY -AWARDED D.S.O

... WOUNDED- BALLOT TO STAY -AWARDED D.S.O. pvVO doctors and a chaplain in the B.E.F. have been honoured for gallantry in the Flanders fighting. Lieut. (Temp. Major) P. H. Newman, R.A.M.C., receives the D.S.O. “Heavenly Twins” Are •' His unremitting keenness ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1940
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 247 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

War Artists' Exhibition LOCAL RESIDENTS' EXHIBITS

... Gallery. The seven pictures by R. G. Eves. R.A., of Adelaide Road, are all portraits. Mr. Eves recently returned from the Flanders battle-front. Vivid in colouring, six of his exhibits portray army officers, while the seventh is of, an Air Vice Marshal ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1940
Newspaper: Hampstead News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BETTER NEWSREEL FACILITIES M. 0.1. Undertaking

... the epic feat of the evacuation of Dunkirk and whether, as operations were still going on in Egypt, the taking of films would receive consideration. Mr. Nicelson said he understood that there were no films taken of the evacuation of Dunkirk. . . With ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 1940
Newspaper: Kinematograph Weekly
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

couNTRY LIFE, J ULY l ath, 1940 ·THE NEW CHURCH HOUSE, WESTMINSTER. (Illustrated.) ALL Jock BARCLAY bodies are ..

... shouldgo well WA R AR TISTS AT THE NATIO AL GALLER Y T of pictures by British War Artists. They bring history up to the evacuation of Dunkirk, of which Edward Bawden has a vivid sketch of the battered quay, while Sir· Muirhead Bone has done two capital ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1940
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 17296 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

ROUNDAB

... preliminary move of theirs to try to discourage evacuation. Meanwhile. however, the logic of 'events is against the indefinite Icnntinuance of evacuation. The Haberdashers' Girls' School, which 'was evacuated from West Acton to Dorsetshire. is to return ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1940
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2023 | Page: 4 | Tags: none