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... at Antwerp. D'Annunzio has ordered hie legionaries to evacuate Port Baron, says a Central been meese4te from Rome. It is announced, say the E Paris, that the Last Brtisi leave France and Flanders tember. Exchange rates yesterday were: Paris 47.45--4710; ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1921
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 123 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GOOD-BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE!

... miners, resulted in as a complete a victor for the Government as any they boasted to have achieved uver Germany in France or Flanders. The funds of the trade unions were exhausted. The private savings of each separate family had gone. There was nothing but ...

Published: Saturday 31 December 1921
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1572 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

of the banks of the Ouse and its

... threatened. One worker described the conditions as like Flanders during the War. Rain which set In last night helped to till the cuttings. Many more people prepared to leave their homes, and farmers evacuated their cattle. The ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1937
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 71 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

March Out To-day

... the nine goals scored on that after- noon. He was on short leave after serving with the B.E.F. in Flanders, and was one of the last few to be safely evacuated from Dunkirk. Edward Duck house, also in the Colours at that time. led the attack and scored two ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1946
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3047 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK: TARGET WAS A SEVENTH OF FINAL RESULT

... DUNKIRK: TARGET WAS A SEVENTH OF FINAL RESULT THE greatest sea-borne evacuation of an army in historythatt of Dunkirk in 1915—resulted in the rescue of more than seven times as many men u it had been facially aimed at saving. The report of the late Admiral ...

Published: Friday 18 July 1947
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 863 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WEYGAND MADE FAILURE CERTAIN -B.E.F. HISTORIAN

... the North would be forced to fall back and attempt evacuation. He initiated the organisation of the Dunkirk bridgehead tied the planning of partial evacuation before ever the policy of general evacuation was accepted by his own Government or by the French ...

Published: Monday 25 January 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 605 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SENATE TAKEN BY SURPRISE

... leadership. Previously, Republican leaders had sought to defeat outright the reprimand for Mr. McCarthy proposed by Senator Flanders, a Republican. While Senator Knowland was making his proposal. Americans were considering the findings of a newspaper survey ...

Published: Tuesday 03 August 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 860 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

SENATE TAKEN BY SURPRISE

... leadership. Previously, Republican leaders had sought to defeat outright the reprimand for Mr. McCarthy proposed by Senator Flanders, a 13,epublican. While Senator Knowland was making his proposal, Americans were considering the findings of a newspaper survey ...

Published: Tuesday 03 August 1954
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 823 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE FACADE of Birmingham's famous Theatre Royal. Future of Court of Chivalry Lord Goddard's Judgment The future ..

... when she sank. Mother of Airman Flies to Irak Mrs. Flanders, of Havering. near Romford. left LOndon by air-yesterday for R.A.F. Station Habbaniya. in Irak. where her son Cpl. Arthur' Stanley Flanders, is in hospital suffering from poliomyelitis. At the ...

Published: Saturday 22 January 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2791 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

VARIATIONS FROM MIDLAND

... WAR By J. M. Cowper THE temper Jof the country forty years ago was one of patriotic fervour scarcely equalled after the evacuation in 1940 of the B.E.F. from the beaches of Dunkirk. The defeat of the Allied armies at the Battle of Le Cateau and the subsequent ...

Published: Monday 11 April 1955
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 847 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ROYAL ARTILLERY UNITS OF TWO COUNTIES

... had great officers and men wear the gun saving of this country through- organised in 1947 the 48th battles in France and Flanders. success recently in obtaining and proud Royal Artillery out its history, and which again (S.M.) Division was not .reincluding ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1958
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 3770 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

20. 1958 Gallantry of 'Fighting' Bth Battalion By COL. PHILIP DOCKER, T.D., D.L. I did not think much of ..

... 1917, for Italy. it. Highlights of the battalion's Many sterling men of all ranks served in the recoufighting in France and Flanders stituted Bth Battalion after the had been the Somme battle, the three months' period of the advance to the Hindenburg Local ...

Published: Friday 20 June 1958
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1587 | Page: 10 | Tags: none