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BRIDAL COUPLE PIPED FROM CHURCH

... Morrison, wife of Dr. Gordon Morrison, Elton Cottage, Duffleld. The bridegroom has served with the B.E.F. in Flanders, and was in the evacuation from Dunkirk. Given away by her brother-in-law, Major Gordon Morrison, the bride wore a white crepe dress, short ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 249 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A Derby Man's Diary

... because of limited space. * Back from Flanders COLLEAGUE tells me that he . recently met Major R. E. H. Stott, of the Sherwood Foresters and a wellknown member of the Friars C.C., who came back with the troops evacuated from Dunkirk. In conversation Major ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1312 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

B.E.F. Back Home Tell How Germans Marched

... IRONED, TOO It was revealed In London jfiterday that crew a Brltiih thip ironed tha clothes of nurses whom they evacuated from the Flanders coast The ship had made its third trip scross the North Sea when it picked up a party of hospital nurses who were ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 286 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

KILLED ON FIRST GUARD

... Five-year-old Allan Malt, Wood Qraeß, London, went with bis two brothers and his schoolmates on Thursday Newquay, Cornwall—evacuated under the Government’s scheme ensure safety for our children. Today Allan's parents were informed that had been killed lorry ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 257 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HITLER LOSES 500,001 HIS PLANS FOILED

... “the largest attacking force in history,” British and French troops are still maintaining their epic rearguard action in Flanders. Central Lord Cort, Commander-In-Chief of the 8.E.F., has foiled the plane of the German hordes who hoped to annihilate his ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 424 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SAW REFUGEES MACHINE

... MACHINE GUNNED Sergeant Gilbert English. R.A.S.C.. a Grantham young man just returned home on leave Irom the battlefields of Flanders, related some dramatic incidents he witnessed when interviewed by a Journal reporter this week. Sergeant English, who lives ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Grantham Journal
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RESCUE OF NAZI AIRMEN

... RESCUE OF NAZI AIRMEN the Allies’ , desperate rearguard action in Flanders, tens of thousands of British soldiers —and French, too continued to pour into England to-day, safe home from one of the most glorious battlefields in the history of war. According ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 620 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DISASTER turned to TRIUMPH

... v. and sympathy for the , >! Flanders rearguard lias been received from the t-j Mr .Winston Churchill p : Minister. It reads : t. expres* my admiration skill and kpavcry shown Servic«s and the merchant n ti'e evacuation ot the BHtUh . ary Force tram ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 323 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

The Cxpress Editorial Mem: Howard St.. Rotherham. Telephone: Rotherham 234. SATURDAY. JUNE Bth, 1940. De Novo

... ry Force from Flanders mercifully clouded the under-lying tragedy—the colossal military disaster, as Mr. Churchill has the courage and candour I to call it. For days we were buoyed and comforted with the tidings of miraculous evacuation, and the marvellous ...

GEDNEY HILL

... spending a few days leave with his parents. He was in the retreat from Flanders. Private Don Naylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Naylor, of the Council Houses, who was also in the party evacuated from Dunkirk, has also been spending a few days in the village. Both ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Spalding Guardian
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HELP ON THE LAND

... former master Nottingham High School, well-known in sporting circles, Lieut Edwin Wm. Lovegrove, was killed in action in the Flanders campaign. On the school staff from 1#33 to 1937, bo left to take a post at Framllngham College. He was 32 years of age, and ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 483 | Page: 5 | Tags: none