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the First World War he worked with the Daimler Company. When hostilities started he joined the Army, serving ..

... First World War he worked with the Daimler Company. When hostilities started he joined the Army, serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France and worked on Daimler vehicles. He applied for a commission in the Royal Flying Corps but was turned down ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1987
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 52 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

They made a name for themselves

... H Street, Kirkcaldy, and or outbreak of war, half regiment went to Crieff an to France. We were trapped with British Expeditionary Force Dunkirk and many were 1a prisoner for the rest of the w managed to find a boat and back to Britain.” ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1980
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 191 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOR FATHER

... inthis sequel to his ‘The Vanished Army’, is less concerned with commanders than with the ordinary soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, to whose gallantryhepayseloquenttribute. His story is based on eye-witness accounts straight from the trenches ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1974
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 212 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

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... Royal Signals Reserves, he was called up on the outbreak of the Second World War and served in France with the British Expeditionary Force until the Dunkirk evacuation in June, 1940. ' Later, he took part in the invasion of Normandv and served in Europe ...

Published: Friday 15 April 1983
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 209 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

by J. H

... Channel Ports’ by Michael Glover (Leo Cooper: Secker & Warburg £13.95) is the dramatic, illustrated story of the 1940 British Expeditionary Force — not at Dunkirk, but trapped in France outside the Dunkirk perimeter. We read how they fought a series of actions ...

Published: Friday 15 February 1985
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 287 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

B.E.M. for County Councillor

... of the | Vice with the Seaforth Higholder members of the congregation. landers. As a member of the THE NEW YEAR British Expeditionary Force he This Sunday sees eversything went to France and at Dunpack to normal. The Sunday |kirk, he was captured and imichooh ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1968
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

James hopes to contact old school pals

... Army in Dundee a year previously, was called up at the start of the Second World War and sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force. Evacuated from Cherbourg in 1940, he was sent to the Middle East in 1941 where he spent the rest of the war serving ...

Published: Friday 22 July 1988
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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... brief he was promoted to Flight Lieutenant in April 1940 and fought his first action during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. He was made up to Squadron Leader in June 1940 and commanded the first R.AA.F. Canadian Fighter Squadron ...

Published: Friday 30 April 1982
Newspaper: St. Andrews Citizen
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 368 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FOR FATHER

... ‘Destination Dunkirk’, by Gregory Blaxland (Kimber £5.95) is a detailed illustrated account of the part played by the British Expeditionary Force in the Second World War, upto the time of the Dunkirk evacuation. Based onofficialrecords and war diaries, itte ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1974
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 360 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Deathof Mr W. W. Scott-Davidson

... First World War he worked with the Daimler Company. When hostilities started he joined the Army, serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France and worked on Daimler vehicles. He applied for a commission in the Royal Flying Corps but was turned down ...

Published: Friday 31 July 1987
Newspaper: Fife Herald
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Earl and Countess celebrate diamond wedding

... occurred His battalion was one of in the Kilconquhar Division those which went with the of Fife County Council in British Expeditionary Force 1955 the Earl successfully to Norway, where a German contested a by-election and bullet shattered his right represented ...

Published: Friday 18 January 1985
Newspaper: Fife Free Press
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 515 | Page: 17 | Tags: none