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MORE SHELLS ON DUNKIRK

... MORE SHELLS ON DUNKIRK. The {ollowing communication, received from the French Embassy, was issued by the Press Bureau yesterday afternoon:— To the east of St. Georges the French Marine Fusiliers have gained possession of the farm L’Union, which had been ...

THE OBSERVER Friday 18 January 1991 Mr H Dobson DUNKIRK veteran Mr Harry Dobson has died in Park Lee Hospital

... Friday 18 January 1991 Mr H Dobson DUNKIRK veteran Mr Harry Dobson has died in Park Lee Hospital Black-bum aged 77 Mr Dobson fought in the Second World War for six years and then became a member of the East Lancashire Dunkirk Veterans After the war he worked ...

Published: Friday 18 January 1991
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1777 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

BOYS AND CIRLS JOIN THE CUILD OF KINDNESS. iermans Shell Dunkirk.r‘ig‘“ e 7 ei T ‘ THRILLING EXPERIENCES ..

... BOYS AND CIRLS JOIN THE CUILD OF KINDNESS. iermans Shell Dunkirk.r‘ig‘“ e 7 ei T THRILLING EXPERIENCES WARSHIPS OFF BELGIAN COAST. INIHER AT The Battlefield from Aloft. Struck by Shrapnel 6,000 Feet Up. Lieutenant Sydney Haywood, of the Royal Flying Corps ...

Published: Saturday 01 May 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1259 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AERIAL FIGHTING

... Zeppelin. The latter opened a heavy fire from machine guns which finally obliged the aeroplanes to abandon the fight. From Dunkirk it is reported that French airmen have destroyed the railway bridge over the Scarpe at Douai, so that traffic behind the German ...

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... ¥ % % On Thursday I had the pleasure of a short chat with Mr. Arthur Aspin, an Accringtonian who is home on leave from Dunkirk, where he is in the service of the French Government. Mr. Aspin has seen many phases of the war, and has shared some of the ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 116 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

A SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS

... medical officer, Dr. Fitzgerald, having accepted a commission in the army. In his 92nd year, and after 61 years as Vicar of Dunkirk, in Kent, the Rev. W. J. Springett is about to resign. Amchbhishop Sumner pregented him to the living early in 1854. Ordained ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

GERMAN AIRMEN BUSY

... apparently found the conditions too bad to continue the journey, for they turned their machines and steered in the direction of Dunkirk. oy - Wiring from Deal on Sunday, a special correspondent of the *‘ Daily Chronicle ” sttt —Consideérable vigilance and “activity ...

Published: Tuesday 12 January 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 551 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GERMAN AVIATORS IN KHAKI

... GERMAN AVIATORS IN KHAKI In a recent Taid on Dunkirk {(says the Paris correspondent of the ‘‘ Daily Telegraph’) an “ Aviatik ” was brought down, and fell some cight miles from the town, between the camal of Furnes and the shore. Immediately Belgian gendarmes ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 227 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SCRIBBLER Funeral of Mr S Moore

... family; Mr and Mrs Dewhurst and children ,(Woodacre Farm); John, Ivy. lan, June and Andrew; Geoff; Mrs Hanson and family (Dunkirk. Farm); Bessie, Alice and Teddy; Lizzie, John, Lawrence, Margaret and David; Ada and family; Elizabeth, Gertrude and Harry; ...

Published: Saturday 29 November 1969
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 203 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WHAT . SAVED SWITZERLAND

... few days.been offered to Colonel Seely. . It is rumoured, however, that: Colonel Seely, who was at the front but came to Dunkirk to comsider the maftter, does not wish to end .his service im the Army, and has declined' the offer, - ' ' ...

Published: Saturday 16 January 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 272 | Page: 8 | Tags: none