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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

THE EVACUATION FROM DUNKIRK

... THE EVACUATION FROM DUNKIRK. MAN TROOPS SAFE. Mr. Anthony Eden, Secretary for War. in a broadcast in the Home and Empire programmes. referred to the critical situation in Flanders. and said there was no braver epic in all our annals. It was the triumph ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Mid-Ulster Mail
County: Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1264 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

887 VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE GREAT EVACUATION

... TUESDAY:— DUNKIRK EVACUATION COMPLETED The last of the Defenders of Dunkirkthat heroic rearguard which beat off almost ceaseless attacks to permit the main Allied armies of the north to elude the tragvlwhich the Germans had set for them in Flanders—have escaped ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Mr. CHURCHILL’S STORY OF FLANDERS BATTLE BELLIGERENTS’ FINAL COMMUNIQUES

... Mr. CHURCHILL’S STORY OF FLANDERS BATTLE BELLIGERENTS’ FINAL COMMUNIQUES rpHE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK IS COMPLETED. The remaining Allied troops were got f safely away on Monday night and the last to leave, the French Admiral Abrail, departed yesterday morning ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 5 | 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

BATTLE RAGES ON COAST ALLIED FORCES EVACUATING 40 GERMAN DIVISIONS IN ATTACK

... BATTLE RAGES ON COAST ALLIED FORCES EVACUATING 40 GERMAN DIVISIONS IN ATTACK French General Reported Captured There is increasing German pressure on the French-Belgium Coast, as the Allied forces are evacuating. The battle rages furiously. The British ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Frontier Sentinel
County: Down, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 162 | Page: 3 | 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