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DUNKIRK

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1940
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

On the Outskirts of Dunkirk

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1089 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEW ACCOUNT OF DUNKIRK

... NEW ACCOUNT OF DUNKIRK The New Contemptibles . . Mr Douglas Williams's slender volume of this title (John Murray: 1/-) contains first-rate material to which the historian will have to go when he writes of Dunkirk. The heroism emerges clear as a star ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NERVES AFFECTED BY DUNKIRK

... NERVES AFFECTED BY DUNKIRK Accused's Plea in Wife Assault Charge That his nerves had been afTccted at the Dunkiik evacuation, and that was worried about his business, was the plea advanced in extenuation at Dundee Sheriff Court to-day when James Alexander ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 561 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

RETURN VIA DUNKIRK

... RETURN VIA DUNKIRK Nerts of Net*? Books MANY books will yet be written on the glorious retreat to Dunkirk, but few, one ventures to suggest, with the simple, unboasting sincerity of Return via Dunkirk (Hodder and Stoughton: 5/-), by Gun Buster, battery ...

Published: Monday 25 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MAN ON MURDER CHARGE

... DUNKIRK MAN ON MURDER CHARGE Clifford Holmes (24). a driver in the R.E.. was committed yesterday from Manchester Police Court to the Assizes, charged with the murder of his wife Irene. The prosecution alleged that Holmes was subject to bouts of ill-terhper ...

Published: Friday 01 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Highlanders' Deeds Before Dunkirk

... Highlanders' Deeds Before Dunkirk COMPLAINTS about the failure of the Ministry of Information to give more official details in Scotland about the heroic part played in the battles before Dunkirk by the 51st and 52nd Divisions, and also the contribution ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1940
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK MAN JAILED FOR DOCKYARD THEFTS

... DUNKIRK MAN JAILED FOR DOCKYARD THEFTS Said to have taken part in the Dunkirk evacuation, William Merchant Stewart, alias William Reynolds William Merchant, William Philip, and William Stewart, labourer, 18 Sunnybraes Terrace, Steelend, was sent to prison ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

R PINED FOR HOME.—CpI. Peter M‘Gill wi wife wnen he ve in Edinburgh last night. Wounded at Dunkirk, M‘Gill lay

... R PINED FOR HOME.—CpI. Peter M‘Gill wi wife wnen he ve in Edinburgh last night. Wounded at Dunkirk, M‘Gill lay in hospital do South showing little improvement in health because he pined for his home and four children. The authorities gratified his wish ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 51 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CHAPLAIN' MYSTERY

... heard Ahaut them Dunkirk, awl nil tr:s to true: them hove fa7ed. missing Is Father Boht.nt who was last seen on Dunkiek on June Ist. Before the war he was a tearher at Downside Se:post. Several of the chat:Otitis gave up p'oees at Dunkirk when they were ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1940
Newspaper: Strathearn Herald
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 111 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WHERE THE AXIS CREAKS

... still, namely to the episode of the Dunkirk beaches. It was then, I feel, that the failure of the invasion- of this island could be foretold. For the German Luftwaffe, so violent in its dives down upon the beaches of Dunkirk, did not seriously attemgt to follow ...

Published: Friday 22 November 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 4 | Tags: none