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Railways' Year of Stress

... railway alone. After Dunkirk. During six days early in June 360 trains, 1300 buses and 200 trams and trolley buses moved 111,000 children and their attendants out of London, but this was eclipsed after the evacuation from Dunkirk. Within eight days 620 ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES

... 30,830 tons, and two Allied of 10,646 tons The aveTage weekly losses during the war are just under 63,000 tons, excluding Dunkirk. ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 71 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SHIPPING LOSSES DOWN

... of 30,830 tons, and two Allied of 10,646 tons. The average weekly losses during the are just under 63,000 tons, excluding Dunkirk. ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PRINLAWS SOLDIER’S PROMOTION

... to Franee as sergeant with the K. 0.5.8.5. For bravery Belgium he was awarded the Military Medal. In the evacuation from Dunkirk he spent three days and two nights on the beach. ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 97 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

RAF. BOMB CHANNEL PORTS

... RAF. BOMB CHANNEL PORTS noon issued this aftermand' ?''o' ' lo Bomber Comand Boulogne, Dunkirk Ostond, d Lud»igS«4.'° ,hc ,!l l -l r '' >SiC' c °z in ,hc iC ANOTHER SWISS Raid alarm «!„ l„j . Berne, Tuesday. 8.40 last night ' arm innill at given' ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SHOOTING THE WAR!

... France, they covered the Dunkirk evacuation. Now they are in the front of the battle at home. Just before the Dunkirk evacuation one of these dare-devils was sent to the South- East coast to relieve another man. Then came Dunkirk. A chance to go over in ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 802 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

R.A.F. AGAIN OVER MANNHEIM

... there were number of explosions. Other targets the Rhineland were aLo bombed. Attacks were made on the ports of Flushing, Dunkirk and Calais and aerodiomes enemy occupied territory. One of our aircraft is missing. Mannheim \va ...

Published: Monday 23 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1940 By Faith

... fantastic and wicked faith that thir ruthless actions spring. To that faith we oppose another. What held us in the dark hour of Dunkirk and turned disaster into glory was our faith Faith in ourselves, in the destiny of the British people. Fait!) in our cause ...

A Sprig 0' Heather

... Heather. In a south coast hospital a Scottish soldier lay ill. Ile had been carried on a comrade's shoulders from the sands of Dunkirk, and for weeks he had hovered between life and death All that medical skill and gentle nursing could provide was his, but ...

Story Of An Artist Explorer

... another with machine-gun rapidity. Distant Horizons is a veritable travel film, ich in experiences which live. Return via Dunkirk, b y Gun Buster (Lor'don: Hodder & Stoughton, ss), is the story told by an artillery captain of the cam Dai gn Franca and ...

Published: Thursday 26 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 767 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HENDERSON STEWART’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

... fighting men. Never in all history have warriors fought with morg skill and daring than our airmen over Kent, our seamen at Dunkirk, and our soldiers at St Valerie. Theirs were feats of giants, and their breed remains, showing itself again at Sidi Barrani ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PRIME MINISTER SURVEYS WAR SITUATION

... had given the British Army an opportunity at last of showing its quality, he said. That victory, and the fighting around Dunkirk, had shown that our troops were fully a match for the enemy, and we bad not the slightest reason to shrink from contact on ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 8 | Tags: none