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AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK Describing what took place the road Dunkirk for evacuation, Col, Fendiet'Ury 'writes that the con- was great that progress even foot was almost impossible. Derelict vehicles were head tail. >n both sides of the in the. ditch road for upon U; ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1943
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK They did not leave Dunkirk until the last night of the evacuation and on that occasion one of the seven Victoria Crosses which stand to the credit of the Regiment was won. The country owes a great deal to the men the East Lancashire Regiment ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1953
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 265 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK

... DUNKIRK great armies marched wit weary steps, Drooping and footsore the coast. A arose which covered God sent the clouds shield Allied host; How would the sea be? was lie secret Present every mind. Would it be export IMPORT > TO EXPORTERS Exchange con ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

trough the Dunkirk

... trough the Dunkirk LATE MR, W. RAWSON the Mi Church «a with pink was pre?xited friends and men)hers t for their honeymoon flloi ' gold watch. Mr. . , .. - ' ,1- Haarson had lived in township at .Southport» the bride travelling, • .. . ' , . , since ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1943
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 390 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FOR DUNKIRK MEN

... FOR DUNKIRK MEN few weeks ago Mrs. Lawson, the mother of Lieut. Lawson, 4th Batt. E-L.R., who was first reported killed, but has since written to inform his parents that a prisoner war, gave the Burnley branch 21b, lof wool and a number of knitted articles ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1940
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Casualty

... Dunkirk Casualty Posted missing on May 10th, 1940, five weeks after joining the Army, Pfce. Edward Wilkinson (38), of 26, Mitrestreet, Burnley, was last Wednesday officially reported killed action on May 26th, 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation. •. ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1941
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 38 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Dunkirk Was a Reality

... Dunkirk Was a Reality We were pretty well in this frame of mind w we woke np one day to find that France had given in, and that the B.E.F. fighting its way desperately to the sea to experience the hell of the Dunkirk beaches, and to rescued by big ships ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1941
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 295 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CAME THROUGH DUNKIRK

... CAME THROUGH DUNKIRK News has been received by Mrs. Taylor, of 10, Clay-street, Burnley, that her husband, Gunner Albert Taylor, of the Royal Artillery, has been posted a* missing. He has been serving in the East. Gunner Taylor is 26 years of age. He ...

Published: Saturday 12 July 1941
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CAME THROUGH DUNKIRK

... CAME THROUGH DUNKIRK Gunner Unsworth Blake, attached to anti-aircraft battery, has written to his wife 42, Whittam-street, Burnley, telling her a prisoner of war in Greece, although no official notification has been received from the War Office. ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1941
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 37 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK PROCESSION

... A DUNKIRK PROCESSION At on® time there was a wonderful called the Cormass. It originated with the Emperor Charles V., who found the people so turbulent and riotous that to keep them out of mischief he was constantly inventing and pageant?, which required ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1923
Newspaper: Burnley News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

BACK FROM DUNKIRK

... BACK FROM DUNKIRK Safe back in England from the B.E.F. in Northern France is Private Neville Winterbottom, son Mr. Winterbottom, the clerk to the No. 11 Area Education Committee, aod Mrs. Winterbottom, of Mayville-road. In a letter home Neville, who had ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 595 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A DUNKIRK REMINDER

... A DUNKIRK REMINDER Mrs. Graham Atkinson r the East Lancashire lno . ,-, ,1, , Good ant Navy twn knees in the street to men. it had not been for men the Merchant Navy we the Merchant Navy a token our very Navy Week vou can period was:—l pital begin in ...

Published: Wednesday 16 February 1944
Newspaper: Burnley Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 73 | Page: 2 | Tags: none