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AT DUNKIRK

... AT DUNKIRK The War Office states to-day that a number of British prisoners of war are known to be in Gorman hands : n Dunkirk. They include Canadians and 24 men of the United Kingdom forces. Their general conditions are satisfactory. ...

Published: Monday 09 April 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 41 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

RAID ON DUNKIRK

... ON DUNKIRK. A German yesterday droppe several bombs op a suburb of Dunkirk. There were 606 vietims.— Reuter, from Paris. ...

Published: Tuesday 16 November 1915
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DOOMED, NO DUNKIRK’-:*::

... DOOMED, NO DUNKIRK’-:*::. THE vital airfield at Salamaua, New Guinea, has been captured by Gen. MacArthur’s forces, and further north the stronghold at Lae is being steadily squeezed by converging American and Australian columns. General Sir Thomas Blarney ...

Published: Monday 13 September 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 616 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Talk of “Dunkirk”

... Talk of “Dunkirk” Since late afternoon yesterday American divisions on the bridgehead soutn of Salerno, the radio'said, have bpen in wild flight, in order to reach the rescue ships! In these circumstances (he British troops cannoi hold out longer in the ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1943
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 58 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TO DESTROY DUNKIRK

... TO DESTROY DUNKIRK That they have been pisced there for the express purpose of destroying Dunkirk tle re can be no question, and wntil they are silenced, ‘will b> exposed te a long-distance shell fire, to which for the present there aro no effective means ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1915
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FIRING ON DUNKIRK

... FIRING ON DUNKIRK Not having been to pieree our lines, or even force ws to uncover Ypres, the Ger- mene had had recourse to the artifice of a naval gun firing upon Dunkirk at a Tange of thirty-eight kilometres (twenty- four miles) This weapon, whose fire ...

Published: Friday 07 May 1915
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BOMBS ON DUNKIRK

... BOMBS ON DUNKIRK. Visit of Seven German Aeroplanes, FIFTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. “ Times ” correspondent says: German made an elaborate bomb attack on Dunkirk this morning, doubtless with the idea of making some reply to the Cuxhaven raid. Four aeroplanes in ...

Published: Thursday 31 December 1914
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 899 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK SAFE

... menace to Dunkirk y the German Germans succeed in since, even should the reaking the Allies’ lines, the approaches to inundated so as € town could be miles by four. to form a vast lake eight umazet, “is a difficult an ““An attack on Dunkirk,” Says M. ...

Published: Thursday 29 October 1914
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Buried at Dunkirk

... Buried at Dunkirk Wing-Commander Norman John Starr, of Swindon, who received bar to his D.F.C. for his leadership in combating the flying bomb last year, is now known to be buried at Dunkirk. He was reported missing in January on the eve of his wedding ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 172 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHELLS ON DUNKIRK

... SHELLS ON DUNKIRK, Fighting Round A: Mine Craten FOILED GE wer Heavy Firing Heardm Holand 2 ‘Rast Night's umciat. : vo enemy aeroplanes dropped eight 6bells on causing insig- — nificant materialsdamage- North of the Aisne our trench gums wrecked epenry ...

Published: Thursday 13 January 1916
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A BALTIC “DUNKIRK’'

... A BALTIC “DUNKIRK’' THE battle for Warsaw is approaching: the decisive stage, with Marshal Rokossovsky swiftly closing in on the city, as 300 miles to the north two German armies face the greatest encirclement disaster since Stalingrad. The Russians have ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1944
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none