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... DUNKIRK GALLANTRY AWARDS 688 Names Given in Latest list Six hundred and eighty-eight names , ranging from Vice-Admirals to deck-hands , were announced in a London Gazette list last night of honours and awards for the Dunkirk withdrawal . The awards were ...
... GUARDS' BRAVERY Brigade ' s Stand on Road to Dunkirk GALLANT WITHDRAWAL [ By Douglas Williams , who was our War Correspondent with the B . E . F . ] In the operation of the evacuation of the B . E . F . from the Dunkirk beaches there were two key positions in ...
... R . S . FUSILIERS Successful Action Covering Dunkirk IN TTOHT CORNER MR ERNEST BROWN Highlands MR CHAMBERLAIN Short Holiday Before Resuming Wnrlr Some of the trials of the gunnery troops may be gathered from the following account of the action at Wytschaete ...
... NAVAL AWARDS Saved Soldiers at Dunkirk D . S . M . FOR ABLE SEAMAN LONDON WAREHOUSE FIRE 'Plane Watches for Nazi Raiders ITALIAN MUNITIONS WORKS EXPLOSION 39 Killed and 500 Injured An able seaman who saved the lives of several soldiers buried in the debris ...
... Sale FATAL WASP STING Aberdeenshire Woman Collapses Unconscious and Dies on Fifth Day WILLS AND ESTATES Officer Killed at Dunkirk Greenock Sheriff-Substitute J . Dean Leslie , during the hearing of a case at Stirling yesterday , upheld the attitude adopted ...
... GOLFING TOPICS RUMOUR AND ST ANDREWS Putter on Wheels Football CLYDE APPLICATION REFUSED r cO G DUNKIRK EPIC Lone Gun Wipes Out 5 Tanks [ BY OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ] If anyone doubts the need for the Government ' s repeated warnings against accepting ...
... ills llirfit ami on many occasions Die squadron , in nuniProus MiiTfssful eiiKfiReniPnt' ; against , ( he enemy . Dunns ; he Dunkirk operations he shot down three enemy aircraft and assisted in destroying a further three . In June 1940 , during a night attack ...
... damaged ship back to an English port 68 S DUNKIRK AWARDS SIX hundred and eighty-eight names , ranging from Vice-Admirals to deckhands were announced in a London Gazette list last night of honours and awards for the Dunkirk withdrawal This is the second list—a ...
... took them to a French hospital near Dunkirk . After his own injury had been treated , he carried on with his special mission and returned to the control centre with his renort . A few hours later he was back in Dunkirk , walking up and down the beach heartening ...
... the official announcement stated . It was General Prioux who commanded the mechanised corps which covered the retreat to Dunkirk , and by its heroic rearguard action allowed the majority of the B . E . F . to be safely evacuated . General Prioux ' s present ...
... dauntless fighting spirit which he himself displayed . The King shook hands and for several minutes talked with this hero of Dunkirk . SERVICE CHIEFS KNIGHTED Two Admirals , five Generals , and three Air Marshals were later knighted by the King . In turn ...
... the official account of the act which won for him the V . C . for conspicuous gallantry on the night of May 31 in front of Dunkirk . Captain Ervine-Andrews held his position for over ten hours in face of a vastly superior force and later swam and waded ...