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KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... KILLED AT DUNKIRK Second-Lieut. Robin N. C. Scott. R.A. son of Mr. R. N. C. Scott. Eisleben House. Stranraillis, Belfast, a director of the firm of John K. Scott, Ltd., Church Street, has been killed in action at Dunkirk. He was 23 years of ajfe and unmarried ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION Continued from page 5 Air Chief-Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Chief of the Air Staff, said, in his replyl express to you my warmest congratulations on the magnificent success which you have achieved. LATE NEWS and Views UNCONQUERABLE The ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK RAZED TO GROUND

... DUNKIRK RAZED TO GROUND Germans Used Incendiary Bombs The ruthless destruction of civilian property caused by the German air raids at Dunkirk, and the adjoining seaside town of Malo les Bains, was vividly described by young Frenchwoman who reached England ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DUNKIRK EVACUATION COMPLETED PORT LEFT UNFIT FOR ‘ USE FRENCH NAVY LOSSES

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION COMPLETED PORT LEFT UNFIT FOR USE FRENCH NAVY LOSSES THE last of the defenders of Dunkirk—that heroic rearguard which beat almost ceaseless attacks to permit the main Allied armies of the north to escape the trap which the Germans had ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

AROUND AN

... AROUND Dunkirk The military evacuation which has just been concluded at Dunkirk la not the first which that port has seen. When the fighting in the 1914-1918 war ended, Dunkirk, which had been too near the firing line to be used as a base, was used for ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LORD GORT HOME

... apparently corresponds” to the strength of several divisions, that the British transport fleet off Dunkirk has been “scattered or destroyed,” the fall of Dunkirk is to be expected “soon,” and that Marseilles and the most important French railway communications ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 504 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

“STATE OF WAI

... on operations Dunkirk continue on particularly large scale, the front from the Somme to the Rhine remains in a state of waiting, was stated here to-night. The calm has only been broken by few incidents. On ail the beaches in the Dunkirk sr?a, in spite ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 588 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRITISH HEROISM

... the ideals which they hold common will be made manifest yet once more.” THE LAST BOAT FROM DUNKIRK French Soldiers’ Adventure There reached England from Dunkirk yesterday 68 French soldiers who had been 24 hours at sea two small boats. There was not a ...

Published: Thursday 06 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 333 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

PILOTS’ STORIES

... PILOTS’ STORIES Machines “Like Midges” Over Dunkirk Dramatic stories were told in London last night air battles during operations over Dunkirk, in which French fighters have been co-operating with the R.A.P. The pilot of a Hurricane who was eventually ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 334 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Parachutist on Beach

... by a German parachutist on the beach at Dunkirk, arrived at an English south coast town yesterday with other French troops. One of them said—“ We were waiting about on the beach for a boat to take us out of Dunkirk when a civilian came up and began making ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 115 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OVER 113 ENEMY MACHINES

... OVER 113 ENEMY MACHINES Fierce Combats Over Dunkirk ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 8 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TWENTY VESSELS LOST

... TWENTY VESSELS LOST Mr. Ronald Cross, Minister Ship, ping, broadcasting last night on the part of the Merchant Navy in the Dunkirk evacuation, said they would never have complete list of all the vessels that took part “Never was there more fantastic armada ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | Tags: none