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MEN WITH FASCIST BADGES

... documents were found at their homes. SAFE AT DUNKIRK THEN HIT BY First-Class Stoker Thomas Snowden, of Westboume, near Chichester, on leave after serving in a destroyer which took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, yesterday was knocked off his cycle by ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WOULD NOT TAKE BOAT

... TAKE BOAT TO DUNKIRK Two Life-boatmen Dismissed The coxswain and motor mechanic of the Hythe (Kent) life-hoat have been dismissed from the life-boat service as a result of a refusal of the crew to assist in the B.E.F. evacuation at Dunkirk. Those members ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

“ WALKED THE PLANK ”

... imagination for a ship to go alongside. The use of this pier was the inspiration of our fellows at Dunkirk. Captain Tennant, who was charge of operations at Dunkirk, and his band of men guided the men to the ships. Narrow mess tables were put across like planks ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COUNCIL EXAMINATIONS

... 9b / stlmj DUNKIRK HERO HONOURED BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS Able-Seaman Victor Kelly, of 61, Derwent Street, Newtownards Road, receiving from Councillor T. E. Colo gifts a wallet of notes, wristlet watch and a razor. He served at Dunkirk on H.M.B. Grafton ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

\ROUND AN

... heard ■’ on the air occasionally, and is a well-known figure in Strangfon* Lough yachting circles. Tanks at Dunkirk A soldier back from Dunkirk has told me a story which will please those old Servicemen who think that the Army la not as smart as it used ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHIPPING LOSSES

... action in the week ending midnight, Sunday, June 2. was 78,715 tons, of which 24,000 tons were lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures were —British. 11 ships (54,715 tons): Allied, ships (17,913 tons); Neutral, 3 ships (7,923 t ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 7 | 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

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