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... The fighting in France and Flanders is well within and we know how, in conformance with the general plan after the German break through, the British retreated steadily and five-sixths of the troops were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk by a miracle ...
... that struck answering chords in the hearts of the visitors. Large numbers of evacues have since returned. For instance, 25,000 evacues arrived in Northampton when evacuation began. Mid-August figures this year showed that less than one sixth of them remained ...
... M.s. 7s. from H.M.S. Repulse and £55 from the Royal Naval Bai racks at Devonport. ENGLAND'S FLANDERS.— The Dockland area of London to-day is the Flanders of England, said Alderman Thomas, chairman of Glamorgan County Council, at yesterday, expressing ...
... heavy. The battalion was among the last to evacuate Dunkirk, and in the delaying rearguard fighting it was engaged in the losses were again considerable, 26 officers and 450 men. From the grim sands Flanders the survivors came eventually to a certain ...
... into strong, supple girdle. On one these beaches I met men of the Durham Light Infantry. who distinguished themselves in Flanders. They have evolved most intelligent scheme of de- (cnee and the many Durham mlncra among them have made full use their occupation ...
... through the eight months lull, and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand account of itself in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break through on the other flank at Sedan, it fought ...
... his wife to come home on leave shortly. He served in France from January until the evacuation from Dunkirk. He participated in much of the heaviest fighting in Flanders. Aged thirty years. Staff-Sergt. Gifford had numerous friends in the Trowbridge district ...
... Mrs. P. McGearthy, Ballivor, recently was Mr. Thomas Duffy, who fought with the British Expeditionary Force in Flanders, and was evacuated at Dunkirk, in the ill-fated troopship, the Lancastria. When the ship went down, Mr. Duffy swam to one of the life ...
... through the eight months lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand account of itself in the Flanders battles and in spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break through on the other flank at Sedan it fought ...
... France , without a single casualty . The B . EF . was steadily reinforced all through the months that preceded the Battle of Flanders , and at a rate more swift than had been promised to our French Allies . In the middle of May 1940 the total strength was ...
... through the eight months’ lull and reinforced more swiftly than had been promised. It gave a grand acocount of itself in the Flanders battles, and in spite of the defection of King Leopold and the German break-through on the other flank at Sedan, it fought ...
... fighting in France and Flanders is well within remembrance. and know how, in conformance with the general plan after the German break through, the British retreated steadily, and five-sixths of the troops were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk by a miracle ...