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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

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

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

WOUNDED LURGAN SOLDIERS MAKING SATISFACTORY PROGRESS

... satisfactory progress. L./B. McClure received a severe arm wound and Gunner Hamilton a head wound during an enemy air attack on Dunkirk, a direct hit being scored on the billet where they and other Lurgan men were staying. L/B. McClure was blown into a cellar ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

38 Days

... Boulogne. M;{ 28 Belgian Army capitulated by ing Leo 's order June 4—Prime Minister revealed 335,000 Allied troops rescued from Dunkirk. June 9—German reconnaissance units reached outskirts of Rouen. June 11—Germans reached the Seine. June 12— Germans entered ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

TUESDAY KING LEOPOLD’'S BETRAYAL

... They are keeping their line intact and inflicting heavy losses on the Germans. v : The retirement is a race against time. Dunkirk, the Germans say, is now within the range of their heavy artillery. e The port is firmly held by French naval forces, with ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Air Force Failed Them GERMAN PRISONERS’ COMPLAINT

... COMPLAINT Germany praises her air force without restraint—but German prisoners taken in the fighting retreat of the B.E.F. to Dunkirk have a different story to tell. Tbaé complain bitterly that their own aircra are never on the spot when the R.A.F. are attacking ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 151 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A RUSE

... from British ports on Satur‘day. The collection of ships was much hmuller than, but similar to the one which ‘helged in the Dunkirk evacuation. very shipload of men coming in told the same stories of the fierce German tacties of dive bombing by waves of ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The B.E.F. of the South OUR MEN WITH THE MAIN FRENCH ARMY ARE READY FOR ANYTHING

... side. The heroism of the B.E.F. in Flanders, the splendid work of the Royal Navy in helping to embark French soldiers from Dunkirk, and the welcome and help given to them when passing through England. have turned close friends into brothers. Our Armfy‘ ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 438 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

887 VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE GREAT EVACUATION

... last war in the historic St. Gegrge's Day raid. Other ports in enemy hands have been rendered virtually useless. TUESDAY:— DUNKIRK EVACUATION COMPLETED The last of the Defenders of Dunkirkthat heroic rearguard which beat off almost ceaseless attacks to ...

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