... married man with a son, P.c. Edwards joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September, 1939, and served with the British Expeditionary Force. He was a prisoner-of-war for five years. ...

... age of 50. He was born at Hull and in March, 1939, enlisted in the Ist Division Royal Artillery, serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium. Afterwards he served with the First Army and_fought in North Africa, Banana Ridge, Anzio ...

... up at the age of 17 as a baby-faced rifleman he later served as an officer through the 1914-18 War and with the British Expeditionary Force in the Second World War. His is a story seen through the eyes of the ordinary soldier in the trenches at Ypres and ...

... Engagement Mr Smith, 77, worked on the land before joining the British Expeditionary Force and serving in France. A few months later he returned to England and the couple got engaged before he left with his regiment for India. After the war Mr Smith had ...

... Dunkirk men soldier on ALMOST 34 years after the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, 46 of those men from all parts of Lincolnshire met at the Royal British Legion Headquarters, Grimsby, last Friday to form a local branch of the ...

... Sleaford. Mr Bettany had lived in Sleaford for over 30 years. He was for 24 years a regular soldier serving with the British expeditionary force in the First World War. He was in retreat from Mons, was awarded the Mons Star, and spent the rest of the war in ...

... of the units cut off from the evacuation port of Dunkirk on the Channel Coast by ‘he German thrust through the British Expeditionary Force positions in June, 1940. The bulk of the BEF was safely evacuated in what became known as “The Miracle of Dunkirk ...

... in the RAF, worked for ten months as a storekeeper in Cranwell since retiring. During the war he served with the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939 and was later evacuated from St Nazaire. He travelled to Canada serving with the Commonwealth ...

... France,” he said, “‘but I was too young, so I had to stay behind. That was when he had been transferred to the British Expeditionary Force. On being left in England, he joined the Royal Artillery and manned anti-aircraft guns in the Battle of Britain ...

... 1919, it was re-formed in 1930, and in 1940 was flying air-cover over the Dunkirk beaches in Spitfires when the British Expeditionary Force was brought off. In 1948, Vampires of the old 54 Squadron made the first jet crossing of the Atlantic. Now the ...