... 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. ...

... by his experiences in the evacuation of Dunkirk. When the order was given to evacuate there were many wounded to be collected and Driver Ash was one of those who volunteered to execute this task. It was during the evacuation from Belgium that Driver Ash ...

... 200 persons He wondered if future historians would come to class the deliverance of the British Expeditionary Force from Flanders with the deliverance from the Spanish Armada People were unable to explain how when our Army should have been annihilated ...

... Britain can be turned into fortress to withstand invasion it is essential that as many of its children possible should be evacuated to one or other of the Dominions. The debate in the House of Commons on the subject this week showed the real interest which ...

... Society and Order of St. John ot Jerusalem, help make good the heavy losses that had been so tragically N*** in France and Flanders. I felt that tne people of Devonshire would wish tne County to play its part in helping to maw good these heavy losses, when ...

... 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 ...

... by Spitfires and Hurricanes. The Spirit of Men The moral of the German tank successes on the Meuse and of his success in Flanders is that the ruthless foe gets the maximum efficiency out of tanks when there are panic-stricken refugees in the offing, and ...

... Commander-in-Chief, Africa Station, since March. 1939. His second son, Sec-Lieut. Maxwell Lyon, was last month reported killed in Flanders. Vice-Adml. Geoffrey Layton was appointed Commander-in-Chief, China Station, last April. Lieut.-Gen. Robert Hadden Haining ...

... 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 ...

... officiated Fig -Off Ian Haydon 23 of Camel-ford is reported to have been killed while returning from action against the enemy Flanders June Shortly before his last flight he was spoken to by the King who congratulated him on the excellence of his work with ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...