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... and taken a position there. Enemy aircraft came over in 100 s and :;-y—lyo-adauyd “Monday, May 27 — BEF are ordered to evacuate Flanders towards Dunkirk. We are fighting on three sides against many divisions of mechanised columns of tanks and guns. It's ...
... well, Private John Haworth, of 110. Wlndsor-road. has been home on 48 hours’ leave, after a stirring time Flanders, culminating the Dunkirk evacuation. He called on me for a friendly chat, writes Observer reporter. What made me particularly glad to see ...
... detailed for evacuation. This was agreed to. Therefore the teachers left behind had no choice, and are now the victims circumstances over which they had no control. Moreovmany of them thought tnat their services would soon required, we evacuated teachers ...
... the Kaiser will claim this to hii credit. The Incorrigible One refuse.. Flanders to talk about the dkcom- Mud. forts of war. Someone tried to draw him out about tho mud of Flanders. “Oh! not so bad,” was all he would say. One good thing, it keeps you u'arm ...
... can afford to look back and smile ruefully at the mistake which cost his mother so much anguish. Few other aspects of the evacuation — faithfully recorded in a battered war diary (below) he still retains war was inevitable and joined the town’s Territorial ...
... Whltmarsh. who died In hospital the previous Wednesday at Waitefield the result of wounds sustained In the fighting In Flanders He was evacuated from Dunkirk Private Whltmarsh. who was aged 24. was the son of Mr and Mrs. P. Whltmarsh. of Palrvlew. Marlplts ...
... Club, the Legion Hall and the bt done quite as well as sand and was Mark's Institute. The Metropolitan generally used in Flanders. , _ . , f Convalescent Home has been requisi- H 1 Ex-Service men between the ages of Honed as the lying-in centre for the ...
... sand and to look around and realise what is happening. Evacuation Doubts Defence of the country by the maintenance of the morale of the civilian population is also affected by the question of evacuation. Since the inclusion of Bexhill in a coastal defence ...
... infantry had been driven. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery at Spanbroek-Molen. near Wytechaete. in Flanders, on March 12th when in command a grenade-throwing party of six rank and file. When was naif-way the hill the Lieutenant was ...