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... Victoria Barracks, During recent operations in France, Including the Dunkirk evacuation, Major General Eastwood served with distinction immediately under General Pownall. Since the Dunkirk evacuation he has commanded division in England. ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FLEET OF LITTLE BOATS

... civilians mostly. They arrived without charts, without fuel and without food. In the end they all went over to the beaches of Dunkirk where their crews acted mostly on their own Initiative. The total numbers were anything from 500 to 800. As boats were sunk ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE SPITFIRE THERMOMETER

... VOLUNTEERED AT 63. AT DUNKIRK: DIED AFTER ACCIDENT At the age of 63 Lieut. Charles Delagado Enoch, of Fitzjohn Avenue, Hampstead, London, volunteered for the present war, served with the B.E.F. in France, and was in the Dunkirk evacuation. He died from ...

Published: Tuesday 20 August 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

UNEASY CALM SETTLES ON REST OF WESTERN FRONT

... UNEASY CALM SETTLES ON REST OF WESTERN FRONT BILE the embarkation operations at Dunkirk continue on par- W ticularly large scale, the front from the Somme to the Rhine remains in a state of waiting, it was intimated in Paris last mght. The calm has only ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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, was found by Private ...

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

ENNISKILLEN,

... ay 27. 1940, killed at Dunkirk. Romer CRAwToRD He laid down his life for us. I will always remember him. Deeply regretted by his sorrowing Sister. MINNIE. 12 Cralgavad Street. ORAWFORD—May 27. 1940. killed in action at Dunkirk. Gunner CRAwFORD. Peaceful ...

Published: Monday 08 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1146 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MILITARY PROMOTIONS

... iug usiliers R. E. Grace (110816), March 23, ISMO. EVACUATED FROM DUNKIRK: MARRIED IN CARNLOUGH Second-Lieut. Wm. Boyd MacLauchlaa, R.E., who was evacuated a lew davs ago from Dunkirk, was married yesterday special licence in Carnlough Presbyterian Church ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALLIED TROOPS

... ALLIED TROOPS In Dunkirk ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 4 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

D.S.O.S AWARDED

... battalion. At Dunkirk his battalion was rear-guard to the division and showed an exemplary bearing during final withdrawal and embarkation, each man carrying two rifles. Major Gilbert Sydney Jones, Lincoln Regiment, is awarded the D.S.o. At Dunkirk, standing ...

Published: Monday 01 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 372 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940, MILITARY UNIT'S APPEAL

... EQUIPMENT AT DUNKIRK. A meeting of the Regional League was held in Belfast on Wednesday evening last. Mr. W. A. Mullan presiding, at which a unit in Ulster wrote pointing out that they had lost all their sports equipment in the ' : evacuation at Dunkirk, and ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ULSTER AND THE WAR

... before a reaper.” They also fought gallantly at Brussels, Ypres, and Dunkirk and Nleuport beaches. DUNKIRK EVACUATION Home on a few days’ leave after taking part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, A.B. T. Finnegan, R.N.R., Mill Lane, Lame, said yesterday that ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 522 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

were all more or

... were all more or •f shelling Dunkirk. ...

Published: Saturday 24 August 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 7 | Page: 3 | Tags: none