DUNKIRK EVACUATION.
125 CIVILIANS KILLED. British Official Wireless. (Received 2 p.m.) RUGBY, June IS. It was disclosed in a House of Commone reply that 123 eiviliaiiis had been killed and' 81 wounded while helping to evacuate the B.E.F. and French troops from Dunkirk. Of these, four killed and two wounded were civilian volunteers, and the remainder regular merchant seamen.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1940, Page 9
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