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... Retreat During the past week further reports have come to hand of the safe arrival of local lads to our shores from the Flanders evacuation. Among these were A.A. Driver J. H. Kitchen, son of Mrs. F. Kitchen, Burrowgate, Penrith, who was called to the colours ...
... Harker. Essex House, Etlen Park, Lancaster. who has many friends in Penrith and district, was reported miming after the evacuation of Flanders via Dunkirk towards th, end of May and is now believed in be a prisoner of war. Gunner Barker *sad the Lancaster battery ...
... artillery duel in Flanders, according to the Berlin reports, rose again to very great intensity during Thursday evening, and was continued to, day. In the course of the night there was • *harp fight at the southern end of the Flanders line, when British ...
... Around EMIII/ea and northward to Steer/muck, the Germans, who hot the Lys, attacked in great strength and gained some We evacuated Arieestarve on Wednesry7tthe crime being saturated with gas, and retired westward. North of Amenities there was • fierce ...
... A STRONG BRITISH ADVANCE. liw result of the attn. k opened by the British in Flanders on Monday afternoon was a sub. istsiitial gain of ground. though this was not attained without hard fighting. The advance was made on both sides of the road leading ...
... progress south of the Somme, as the result of which we lost Roye. The enem y was checked, however. wen of Roye and of Noyon evacuated be the French daring Monday night. Roye is 25 miles south-east of Amiens and twelve miles north-west of Noyon. Noyon is situated ...
... Penrith Casualty in Dunkirk Evacuation A PeMidi 1114411 is lying in a south-country hospital su ff ering from badly burned face amj hands sustained after a narrow escape from death when the ship on which he way being evacuated with other members of the ...
... starts immediately. (Great laughter.) When one hears of such a guarantee, CUMmellted General Botha, one remembers pour Flanders. In a striking passage General Botha said that if there was use reason move than another why the Union slicold retyin the ...
... to the attack having been made by black troops. To excuse the reroute. it now stated that the positions en the Canal were evacuated become Germany had only tweak forces there, and they were subjected to a heavy bombardment. Paris reported yestareiev that ...
... the Division lay, of course, in their disciplined British veterans, men whose warliardened faces, whether in Gallipoli or Flanders, had never been turned from an enemy. It is no light matter to drive such a force, and the four German divisions who drove ...
... and that the German locum have been terrible. On one day three thousand wounded arrived is Glolmuna and the centre of West Flanders is at Inglemunster, which is hecoming one great hospital. Bunion has suffered heavily, 250 houses having been burnt during ...
... um in the lanieus retreat front Mons. and a has a great reputation during die o developments of the ranipaign in Fro and Flanders. The War minnowsnient reads: - General Sir Haig ha. hen appointed to Field Marshal Sir John French in the armies n Erne and ...