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DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK A member of tho 297 (Inverness) Battery. Territorial Army, he was transferred Royal Signals before tho war. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and served in London during the blitz. Ho was later posted to Algiers and served in North Africa for three ...

Published: Monday 04 February 1974
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 110 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

At Dunkirk

... At Dunkirk Mrs Roome said to-day that her daughter and Captain Porteous had known each other all their lives. Miss Roome, who works at the Admiralty, was a V.A.D. nurse in a military hospital for eighteen months. Captain Psrtecus, who was educated at ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1943
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Oa Dunkirk sands at break of day, The British army stood at bay, And the sad sod bitter tale I'll tell, ' How nearly into German hands they felL ' They went five hundred thousand strong, To Pleader: fields to right a wrong. There in the van they ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1940
Newspaper: Leven Mail
County: Fife, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK The Ist Battalion went to France from Aldershot at the outbreak of war in 1939 as part of the 2nd Division. After continuous rearguard fighting in the German advance across France in 1940, 1n which the Battalion distinguished itself, the remnants ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1948
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 47 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK _ Tuesday and Wednesday THE BROTHERS RICO— Richard Conte plays an ex-racketeer trying to live a normal decent life which is rudely interrupted when he has to go on the run with his two brothers. GHOST OF THE CHINA SEA is the e xciting story of ...

AT DUNKIRK

... Notwithstanding repeated efforts, Cluny’s grave at Dunkirk—so far away from the hills of his native Highlands—cannot, alas' now be traced. In a letter received from the British Vice-Consul at Dunkirk, he writes as follows: — “In reply to your letter of ...

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Further awards to heroes of the R.A.F. were announced to-day. There is one D. 5.0., ten D.F.C’s, and 11 D.F.M.’s. A number of the awards are for heroism during the Dunkirk evacuation. - [ Squadron Leader Philip . Algernon Hunter, aged 27, of Frimley ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK. The Central News eenospandeat Amsterdam tear— from Ghent that a Zeppelin going from Nteopoft in the direction of Dunkirk was obliged to return owing to heary fire of the Affiea. Rmtia’t Down. AFTER LODZ OPERATIONS. RUSSIANS TAKE 8000 PRISONERS ...

Published: Monday 14 December 1914
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK Ninetcen life-boats of the Institution formed part of the ‘‘fantastic armada of little boats which evacuated the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. These life-boats brought off from the beaches thousands of men. All the life-boats were damaged. One was lost ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK”

... DUNKIRK” But Many Anti-Reds Are Left Behind FRENCH UNION forces have successfully completed the evacuation of 1600 square miles of the vital Red River delta in a vast land, sea and air operation, the French High Command announced to-day. The announcement ...

Published: Friday 02 July 1954
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dunkirk

... Dunkirk veteran ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1980
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2 | Page: 3 | Tags: none