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BIRTHDAY PRESENT FROM

... BIRTHDAY PRESENT FROM FLANDERS Soldier Son Had Mot Forgotten A birthday present sent o£C by her soldier son In Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. Grelg, of Bonnygate, Angus, Fifeshlre. The parcel, battered and torn ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Y.111.11A. MI WAR SERVISE. lams BMW Iyasesties tram Rimisrs

... provide for the comfort .tod welltwin; to those on the sorreird heavy losses In material, stores. and equipment in the evacuation Flanders. Actual losses inelttrle IS fully equip/red centres, three huts, and large port hostel, which have fallen into enemy ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 174 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ROYAL AIR FORCE

... and eleven other ranks the Royal Air Force. Most of the decorations were won for operations during the Battle of Flanders and the evacuation from Dunkirk. Squadron - Leader Philip Algernon Hunter, aged 27. of Frimley, Surrey, is awarded the D.S O. The official ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“BLACK-OUT” 10-33 p.m.-4-16 a.m

... is understood that some of the Service members wish to discuss various matters in connection with the Battle of Flanders and the evacuation of Dunkirk. There have been complaints of a lack of preparedness by the former Government, who. it is said, were ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1051 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IN FLANDERS FIELD

... weeks —the others will be evacuated . with minimum losses and will, like the survivors of Gough’s Fifth Army : March, 1918, live to get their revenge in final victory. Campaign Reviewed rpo APPRECIATE the significance of the Flanders campaign, it most be ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 399 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION back from THE FRONT MUSSOLINI: NO MOVE YET Week-end May Be Decisive announcement of any fresh War decision by Italy was made following a meeting the fascist Cabinet yesterday under Signor THE BATTLE OF THE PORTS Premier's Speech at ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 351 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION COMPLETED PORT LEFT UNFIT FOR ‘ USE FRENCH NAVY LOSSES

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION COMPLETED PORT LEFT UNFIT FOR USE FRENCH NAVY LOSSES THE last of the defenders of Dunkirk—that heroic rearguard which beat almost ceaseless attacks to permit the main Allied armies of the north to escape the trap which the Germans had ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GREAT DAY IN THE AIR DUNKIRK EVACUATION ACCELERATED IN SPITE OF NAZI PLANES CALM ON SOMME AND AISNE

... the Allied navies and air forces the work of embarking the last heroic defenders who have covered the Evacuation of the northern armies from Flanders is going steadily iiirward in spite of aerial bombing and hhmbardment by German long-range France can ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FROM HOUSE TO HO USE

... Armies were rescued. PARIS AND EVACUATION. Military and naval circles in Paris state that the evacuation was without precedent in military history. Even up to three days ago it was thought that it would not be possible to evacuate more than 100,000 men. German ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

KING HONOURS LORD GORT

... KING HONOURS LORD GORT the evacuation from Dunkirk well forward Lord Gort handed over his command of the B.E.F. Flanders to a less sento* officer and returned to England on Saturday. Soon after his arrival he went to Buckingham Palace, where the King ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALLIED REARGUARD'S STUBBORN FIGHT BY LAND, SEA, AND AIR IN COMPLETE SOLIDARITY ENEMY ATTACK ON SOMME

... British forces at Dunkirk are continuing, in complete solidarity, the stubborn fight to resist the German drive and assure the evacuation. The enemy, showing the importance which he attaches to crossing the Somme, counter-attacked in this region. This cou ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMAN CASUALTIES NEARLY

... 000 Nazi troops engaged | in the Flanders battles and in Holland ' Germany suffered between 400,000 and 500,000 casualties. About 80 divisions were used against the Allies in the battle which ended with the evacuation Dunkirk Out of these there were about ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 1 | Tags: none