The Archive · 1940

Action at Bergues Recalled Today

Commemoration Services

How a "Scratch Team" of In Manchoukuo The BEF. Held Off the Hailar, Sept, 19. Nazis Near Dunkirk Nomonhan Memorial Day ts to be When revi he long list cities and towns which have recent, been devastated Fratice Belgium. it would be impossible to mention the romantic and ancient little fortified township of Bergues.

This old Vauban fortress, forming as it does, a small island of its own surrounded and intersected with canals, proved an important and final bastion in the last line of Dunkirk emorated h omorrow on the first anniversary of the Manchou Outer Mongolian hostilities at Nomonhan. Commemoration services will be held over a period of three days niding principle of the service:

be to thank and comfort the spirits of those who died during the Nomonhan engagements, the press reports, At the same time, the day will be celebrated as symbol of "the new defence:

s, the holding of whi de possible the final evacuation of the olding of which made ye.clution of the people to promote

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