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A YEAR OF WAR

... that would he offered be the armies of Belgium and Holland, with the support of the British Expeditionary Force. Then came Dunkirk. and the valour with which our Forces fought their way back to safety was nuitched only by the heroism of the Royal Air Forel ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 684 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

War’s Latest Phases

... Lan R. Hunter, Tyneside Scottish, is prisoner of war. word had been heard Sec.-Lieut. Hunter since some time before the Dunkirk evacuation. Educated Arbroath School, he was employed in the British Linen Bank prior to the outbreak war. When last spring ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 418 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A detachment of the Fleet Air Arm who attended the funeral on Saturday of the two Nazi airmen who were killed ..

... gathered round the kitchen range ami sat quiet for a few minutes, listening. Then wee Sandy brightened up. “When you think Dunkirk you’ll no* mind waitin’ till next year for the summer holiday. Dad.” “That’s right enough. “ said Mother. Hack the works next ...

Published: Friday 23 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Picturesque Uniforms

... privateer, - is nn Hem will known to all who have made the slightest study of local history. When the Fearnought cutter—alas of Dunkirk—a name more historic to-day than ever before—stood into the hay of Arbroath and displayed her colours there was no room to ...

Published: Saturday 03 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Guide
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

River Boom

... that the steamboat which takes you from Kew to Hampton Court may proudly bear the notice: This vessel evacuated troops from Dunkirk.” When a boat I was in the other day passed the Princess Freda lying quietly at her mooring the passengers read such a notice ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1940
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1470 | Page: 7 | Tags: none