... Wirnb• wish him all the best in the biggest part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. the Mines Department branch of the, well lad in the Forces: the more the'lob he has tackled. While at Dunkirk he was batman and, Civil Service in London. When home merrier. One ...

... DUNKIRK Oa Dunkirk sands at break of day, The British army stood at bay, And the sad sod bitter tale I'll tell, ' How nearly into German hands they felL ' They went five hundred thousand strong, To Pleader: fields to right a wrong. There in the van they ...

... DUNKIRK Tha following •oul-atlrrlng line* are trom the pen an airman, stationed Somewhere la Llncolnahire fiorld felt shiver of horror. While the stoutest heart sickened with gloom. And even the wisest of England Could see nought for the Army but doom ...

... and bomb that ragod round Dunkirk last May. Cheer after cheer row up at the Royal Pavilion when these grand old men of the sea—one of them is 75—were presented with bronae plaques to attach to their boats to commemorate Dunkirk. '• With the incomparable ...

... Remembering Dunkirk The wreath laid by the Lord Mayor at the foot of the Cenotaph on behalf of the city was of white chrysanthemums, poppies, and laurel leaves. Lord Derby placed a wreath there representing the Liverpool branch of the British Legion. ...

... SPARTAN DUNKIRK” In these Persian Wars, too. came the famous stand at Thermopylae, where Leonides guarded this pass in the centre Greece against the Persians’ massed armies—3oo Spartans against many thousands. It was achievement perhaps be compared with ...

... ABOUT DUNKIRK I am told there are too many books being written about Dunkirk already. 1 doubt that statement, as too much cannot be writen on such an epic. Anyway, there is room for this soireture gay (not always), personal account the adventures a British ...

... No “Second Dunkirk” We will provide the money for them. There will not a second Dunkirk.” The Mayor read a telegram of encouragement from Sir Kingsley Wood (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and mentioned the receipt of a cheque for £6 6s. from 50 scholars ...

... the Outskirts of Dunkirk LIGHT ON BELGIAN ARMY'S COLLAPSE u By G. E. Ley Smith and jerkily through the night the machine-gun battalion ° f Gordons made its way northwards towards the Yser. and again the roads were blocked by the transport of various v ...

... Dunkirk Work Appealing for more support. Aid. Bretherick said that IB lifeboats helped In the evacuation of Dunkirk. To replace the one lost and repair the other 18 boats, was costing the Institlon £B.OOO. The lifeboat services round the 500 miles our ...

... JAPAN’S DUNKIRK Withdrawal of Japan’s expeditionary force from the hinterland of South China “without a single casualty” was described by Major Akiyama, the Tokio War Office spokesman, to-day as one of the most successful operations of its kind in the ...

... SUNK AT DUNKIRK. From Norway, H.M.S. Grafton, accompanied 17 another destroyer, was sent to Dunkirk, where they were the first two ships on the scene, but two days before the evacuation of the troops commenced they had an interlude in which they were ...