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M.B.E. IN NEW YEAR HONOURS

... George: Caulfeild was educated at Wellington College and Sandhurst. He joined the Army in 1938 and served with the British Expeditionary Force in France during the war, and was at the Dunkirk evacuation. He has also served in Palestine, Burma, and East Africa ...

Published: Saturday 05 January 1952
Newspaper: Midhurst and Petworth Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BRITISH CASUALTIES. LONDON, Wednesday afternoon

... BRITISH CASUALTIES. LONDON, Wednesday afternoon. From headquarters of British Expeditionary Force a return has been received of casualties of one of the cavalry regiments, and three divisions—one brigade. Tt shows 36 officers and 127 other ranks killed; ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1914
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 97 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

INVOLVED

... 1944,” Herbie explaine 1. “Ernie served in the same regiment as me. He joined up in October 1939 and went with the British Expeditionary Force to France in December.” Both Herbie and Ernie were evacuated on 28 June 1940. “They were good sol- ...

Published: Thursday 12 September 1996
Newspaper: Banbridge Chronicle
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SATURDAY'S CASUALTIES

... SATURDAY'S CASUALTIES. The official casualty lists issued to-day give the names of sixty-five officere of the British Expeditionary Force dead, seventy-nine wounded and missing, two missing, and four missing, believed killed. One officer previously reported ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PTE. O. SWAIN

... Warwickshire Regiment, will communicate with Private J. C. Taylor, Mechanical Transport, A.8.C.,, 401 Company, British Expeditionary Force, France, he will send them some particulars of the deceased soldiers’ last resting place, el ...

Published: Friday 10 March 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

5 e

... signaller in the Royal Scotch Fusiliers, and DriverE. Wykes, of the 4th Warwick Regt.—both of whom are Serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France—for the parcels sent to them at Christmas, . x ...

Published: Friday 04 February 1916
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BRITISH CASUALTIES. LONDON, Monday

... men issued by the War Office give the names of 147 dead and 191 wounded, prisoners, etc., in three lists from the British Expeditionary Force, one of which is dated 3rd February. A list from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force gives the names of two killed ...

Published: Saturday 19 February 1916
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FIRST WORLD WAR DATES

... Britain, protesting against Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality, declared war on Germany. August 7, 1914: British Expeditionary Force, commanded by Sir John French, landed at Le Havre. August 25, 1914: Battle of Mons. Germans defeated the British ...

Published: Monday 02 August 1993
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Information needed on war hero uncle

... hero uncle I AM researching the life and times of my late great uncle, Ernest A Phillpott He was a soldier of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium in 1914. A company sergeant major in the Northamptonshire’s (48th), he was promoted in the ...

Published: Monday 04 August 1997
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRIVATE B BLYTHE

... flying homers. He was employed in the Rudge-Whitworth printing department for seven years and went out with the British Expeditionary Force. The extraordinary hardships which the troops had to endure incapacitated him and he has had to undergo two operations ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1915
Newspaper: Coventry Graphic
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 117 | Page: 17 | Tags: none