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B With Lurganmen at Dunkirk Local Gunner Recounts Experience

... B With Lurganmen at Dunkirk Local Gunner Recounts Experience During the present week from Tuesday onwards Lurgan members of the B.E.F. have been arriving home on a short leave following their evacuation from Flanders. Generally speaking the soldiers are ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Parachutist on the Beach 21 FRENCH SOLDIERS KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... Parachutist on the Beach 21 FRENCH SOLDIERS KILLED AT DUNKIRK Four French soldiers, 21 of whose comrades were murdered in a party by a German parachutist on the beach at Dunkirk, arrived at a South coast town on Monday with other French troops. One of ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TO THE PORTADOWN HEROES OF DUNKIRK• A TRIBUTE. Oh gallant men of Portadown. The praise of all you've won. Your

... TO THE PORTADOWN HEROES OF DUNKIRK• A TRIBUTE. Oh gallant men of Portadown. The praise of all you've won. Your names go down In history For deeds that you have done; You've thrilled us with your acts indeed. On Dunkirk's blood-stained Sand. And new we ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

9th 15th JUNE, 1940. What About It

... actions at Dunkirk. One soldier with whom our reprezentatlve had a chat said: I take off my hat to Lieut. Sinton. He led us inagnilleently. In the darkness, and .vith explosives bursting everywhere, le brought us safely through the Dunkirk inferno and ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 364 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GERMANS BESTIALITY

... leave this week. A Royal Inniskilling Fusilier, who fought with his Regiment in Louvain, Brussells, and right through to Dunkirk, told the writer of squadrons of German planes machineifunning a column of refugees extending for several miles. The sight ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Sergt. Liggett's Experiences

... a grand account of themselves. He saw the Canadian memorial. Vimy Ridge, destroyed by the Nazis. Describing his return to Dunkirk, he said two of their tanks approached a village in order to assist some Allied soldiers. Just on turning a bend, they were ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PORTADOWN CASUALTIES

... with a leg wound, caused by shrapnel at Dunkirk. He is progress. ing well. rEvlr. and Mrs. Wm. Montgomery, Ormonde St.. have learned of their son. Gunner Leslie Montgomery, Royal Artillery, being wounded at Dunkirk. He is in an English hospital. The minesweeper ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BELFAST MEN SENTENOED

... the Dunkirk arca, the embarkation of Allied troops is still being actively carried out at normal speed. g During the past 24 hours, a French military spokesman said on Sunday, the enemy has brought up heavy long-range artillery all round Dunkirk to cover ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PLAYED CRICKET DURING U

... and availed of the opportunity to assist Windsor against the Technical. Bob, who has had previous Army experience. was at Dunkirk. but was not inclined V - , speak of the terrible ordeal which the B.E.F. underwent in the course of the now historic evacuation ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

B.E.F. Men Back From France SMALL CRAFT IN USE AGAIN

... have now arrived in England, having been evacuated in as miscellancous a fleet of vessels as that which brought our men from Dunkirk. They landed at a West Country and a south coast port. All told of fierce German dive bombing tactics by waves of 60 to 100 ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WELL OVER 100 RAIDERS

... sons of Mrs. M‘Clay, Barnwall Place, Londonderry, are mow serving in the Forces. Theflninclude three who were evacuated from Dunkirk. At Omagh g:-mr Sessions on Wednesg‘:,y, James yes, 'l\gllty;;errin, Bcohr:gh. . Tyrone, was it on a of woundin motm labourer ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COMPLAINT ABOUT DRAIN

... to deal with the matter. PORTADOWN MEN AT DUNKIRK. At this stage Mr. Johnston said he thought it a shame that a town like Portadown did not do something in recognition of the services of local men at Dunkirk. They had had an experience they would never ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 464 | Page: 6 | Tags: none