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ANNOUNCED WAR PRISONER

... Coleraine man, was minister of Forest Gate Congregational Church, London E. He was in Flanders with an advanced dressing station and reported missing after the evacuation of Dunkirk. a result of inquiries instituted by his uncle. Mr. David MTntyre, New York ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 115 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SOME CARRYING CANARIES

... and were exhausted when they reached France. They provided a pathetic spectacle, recalling the evacuation of the villages of Lorraine, Champagne and Flanders in 1914. Weeping women, carrying their babies in their arms and followed by strings of children ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1936
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

VISITS TO PRISON CAMPS

... Forces, a native of Coleraine, and formerly minister of Forest Gate Congregational Church, London, who, following the Dunkirk evacuation, was taken prisoner, writing to Mr. J. Herbert Ireland, General Secretary to the Belfast Y.M.C.A., to whom for several years ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1941
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

RUSSIAN STAND IN GALICIA. ENEMY HELD BACK ON THE

... been eorpriaingly truthful far as the Western theatre ot war is concerned —no important events have taken place in France or Flanders during the last few days. The artillery duel is being sept up steadily, but beyond that there is nothing report. An unusually ...

Published: Friday 03 September 1915
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ENEMY SUCCESSFULLY ‘ATTACKED

... front our troops successfully attacked the Germans near the village Olai. south-weet Riga. The enemy was obliged temporarily evacuate (has pent. We occupied the cemetery near the village of Laour, the left bank of the Dvina, near Uxkull. South of Pilvere ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1915
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOSS OF 100,000 PRISONERS

... wing on the Julien front, and admitted that the enemy troops bad penetrated into Italian territory. The stores and depots evacuated were destroyed. The Germans claim a great victory during the wet k end, and on Sunday evening reported that further progress ...

Published: Friday 02 November 1917
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940

... —Fighting In the North increasing in violence, aaid the official French military commentator to- day. He said that In the BatUe Flanders the Germans were throwing enormous human and material forces into the nght, regardless of losses, and were trying to overwhelm ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OUR WAR REVIEW on Land and Sea and in the Air

... Aim. The Germans, In their effort crush resistance, have flung 40 new divisions —more than million men —into the battle in Flanders. Their losses are admitted by themselves to be very severe. While the struggle continues Allied troops reaching the coast ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1726 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

From DOUGLAS WILLIAMS

... and the tractors and four-wheel drive lorries used to haul artillery have proved fully capable of standing up to the mud of Flanders. The art of camouflage has improved a great deal in the last 20 years and factors of colouring geographical background and ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1939
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WEEKLY TEI.ECKAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 8. 1940

... the immediate future. EVACUATION WORRIES GERMANS. The German authorities are most concerned to nullify the effects of Mr. Eden s broadcast announcement on Sunday tnat four-fifths of the B.E.F. had already been evacuated from Flanders, states the Daily Telegraph ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 826 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ROBINSON & CLEAVE R’S

... Leopold Canal. In North Flanders rifle fire is audible Iloulers, Gits, and Throurout. RUSSIANS INVEST PRIZEMYBU Official Viennt message admits that th© Buasians have again invested Pretemysl, aud that the Austrians have evacuated Central Galicia. THE GOEBEN ...

Published: Friday 13 November 1914
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

'COMMODORE KING, M.P. ! RECORD IN PEACE AND WAR

... cam- Paign. He was present at the landing of ithe troops on the Peninsula on April 25, 1915, and served there until the evacuation in January, 1916. .He was wounded and three times mentioned in despatches. winning the D.S.O. Later in the war Commodore ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1930
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 5 | Tags: none