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Forced Landing The Common Touch''

... week — Tyrone Power and Betty Grable* in A Yank in the R.A.F. Bringing to the screen for the first time scenes from the Dunkirk evacuation and the Battle of Britain, it has Tyrone Power as a bored American ferry pilot who joins the R.A.F., and Betty ...

Published: Friday 24 April 1942
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WEEKLY QUIZ

... Questions and Answers Edited and Verified by Chamber's Encyclopaedia 1. Who commanded the British forces at the re- treat Dunkirk? 2. Under what name was J. ROSS of the R.A.F. bet ter known? 3. Name the capital of Guernsey. 4 Who wrote All Quiet on • ...

Published: Friday 07 December 1962
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 120 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NEATH CORPORATION EMPLOYEE'S FUNERAL The funeral took place at Llantwit Church Cemetery last eek of Mr. Francis ..

... W. Chugs. and others. Mr. Creek i• aurrtved by his widow, his only sam. Frank. having being lost at the evlootation lit Dunkirk. Nie,um. John Evan, and Son, undertaker and comniet e funeral furnhihers. Melinervdd n. carried out the arrotngernent, ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1944
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Advertisement | Words: 112 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MILITARY RONOCRR FOR OFFICER KILLED BY MINE

... Churchyard. Abenvon, of Lieut. C. L. Shrimpton. son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Shrimpton, Velindre Street, Port Talbot. A survivor of Dunkirk,. having been drafted to _ . France In 1939 ' , Lieut. Shrimpton joined a bomb disposal unit of the Royal Engineers, and met ...

Published: Friday 28 September 1945
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

. – TOO VIOLENT FOR WORDS

... lost his head. . _ Doolan said that Bennett had seen -ervice in the army, and he understood that he had taken part in the , Dunkirk evacuation. He had been! temporarily discharged from the army. and as far as he knew, he 'was not in any of the Defence services ...

Published: Friday 06 June 1941
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE STUFF WE'RE MADE OF The overwhelming mass of Nazi machinery, used without pity or scruple, has done ghastly ..

... laboar'• lb *YIP only in the gift of man who - believe in the cause for which they work. Men - the machbsea . The spirit of Dunkirk is unbeatable, given the weapons our workers are making. In diys of • trial' and adversity, the British people show the stuff ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Advertisement | Words: 161 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Neath R.E. Unit Re-Formed Building on Strong Tradition

... fine morning in August 1939, realised that their camp was to last for six and a half years, and was to take the unit to Dunkirk, India, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, North Africa from Cairo to Tunis, Sicily, Italy, back to France on D Day and thence almost ...

Published: Friday 23 January 1948
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

UNHAPPY MEMORIES FOR NEATH FAMILY

... Staff Quartermaster Sergt. W. R. Jenkins, R.A.S.C., among those on board, was sunk while leaving St. Nazaire, shortly after Dunkirk. Quarter-master Sergt. Jenkins was unfortunately one of the many who lost thcir lives on that occasion, though his brother ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1942
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Stallholder 'plugged in' to telephone kiosk

... MICHAEL BRAHAM went to France in 1939, and was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre for bravery in 1940. Taken prisoner at Dunkirk, he escaped from Germany in 1944, and made his way home through Poland and Russia, arriving home after VE Day. Since that ...

Published: Friday 06 January 1956
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

ABERDULAU3 WELCOME

... returned home on Thursday of last Week. He was repatriated from Ge!many, where he had been &We he was taken prisoner of at Dunkirk. Mr. Lionel Moore, who is in the best of spirits, was giyen a good welcome on his return. lIMSSING SKEVVEN AIRMAN • TRACED ...

Published: Friday 05 November 1943
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ABERA VON

... Lieut. Bidder served throughout the war in the Royal Artillery, and was among those who were pvacuated with the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in 1940. While in India he had the distinction of playing for his regiment's rugby team which won the Calcutta Cup. Prior ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1946
Newspaper: Porthcawl Guardian
County: Mid Glamorgan, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 5 | Tags: none