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LISBURN CASUALTIES

... A.B. J. Cree is in hospital in England with a wounded wrist which he sustained during the evacuation of the B.E.P. from Dunkirk. which withdrawal terminated on Monday with the complete evacuation of the gallant rearguard. A.B. Cree is a son of Mr. and ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 694 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Quentin. The object of this blow will be Paris. and by a swinging movement. the annihilation of the French Army

... threatened with complete surrender seeing it was surrounded on three sides by a much superior force. Nevertheless. the passage to Dunkirk was kept open by a marvellous feat of arms, which inflicted losses at a ratio of 4-1 on the enemy. Then began the great withdrawal ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Lisburn Standard
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2648 | Page: 3 | Tags: none