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HERO OF DUNKIRK RESCUE. BOMBARDIER BROCKERTON TAKES BELFAST BRIDE

... HERO OF DUNKIRK RESCUE. BOMBARDIER BROCKERTON TAKES BELFAST BRIDE. Famous as a racing motor-cyclist in Ulster in pre-war days and now more famous still as the man who saved 81 men from almost certain death in a Dunkirk cellar, Lance Bombardier George ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 6 | 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

BATTLE RAGES ALL DAY AT DUNKIRK GERMAN ADVANCE COSTS ENORMOUS LOSSES

... BATTLE RAGES ALL DAY AT DUNKIRK GERMAN ADVANCE COSTS ENORMOUS LOSSES J’HE epic Dunkirk still goes on,” declared the French military spokesman last night. The j Allied sea and air forces are still defending their entrenched positions. *• The Allied trooi>9 ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

GREAT DAY IN THE AIR DUNKIRK EVACUATION ACCELERATED IN SPITE OF NAZI PLANES CALM ON SOMME AND AISNE

... THE AIR DUNKIRK EVACUATION ACCELERATED IN SPITE OF NAZI PLANES CALM ON SOMME AND AISNE AUTHORITATIVE MILITARY CIRCLES IN PARIS STATE THAT ALTHOUGH SUNDAY WAS NOT MARKED BY ANY IMPORTANT EVENTS ON LAND IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN THE AIR. At Dunkirk the Germans ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

holding the region west the Yser and the entrenched camp near Dunkirk. An officer who has just returned to London

... camp near Dunkirk. An officer who has just returned to London speaks of the stunning effect of the air bombardment. Although went through the last war he points out that it was far greater than anything could ever imagine. The bombing Dunkirk was quile ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 405 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

I AM GOING BACK. ULSTER RIFLEMAN'S RESOLVE. EXPERIENCES AT DUNKIRK. 48 HOURS WITHOUT WINK OF SLEEP They killed ..

... away after spending four or five hours on the beach at Dunkirk. Rifleman Smyth, of the Royal Ulster Rifles, whose home is in Belfast, said the bombing and machine-gunning of the beach at Dunkirk was continuous. The safest place was in the water, he ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 432 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

INDICATED ON THIS MAP 18 THE APPROXIMATE BATTLE LINE NOW HELD BY THE ALLIES FROM THE COAST TO THE MAGINOT LINE ..

... INDICATED ON THIS MAP 18 THE APPROXIMATE BATTLE LINE NOW HELD BY THE ALLIES FROM THE COAST TO THE MAGINOT LINE PROPER. STORY OF DUNKIRK ADVENTURE. HELPING IN EVACUATION. MUST HELP TO BEAT HITLER. AMERICAN PAPER'S PLEA. ISOLATIONIST POLICY CHANGED. Abandoning ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 597 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HONOURS DUNKIRK HEROES. —At Bellevue Street, ShanklU Road, on Saturday Sgt. H. Snoddy, CpL A. Johnston, Pte. J. ..

... HONOURS DUNKIRK HEROES. —At Bellevue Street, ShanklU Road, on Saturday Sgt. H. Snoddy, CpL A. Johnston, Pte. J. Russell and Pte. J. Murdock were the recipients gifts from their friends and neighbours, Mr. J, Martin presided at the ceremony and Mr. S. ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LARNE-STRANRAER SHIP AT DUNKIRK Shell HiU Engine-room: Several Casualties It was learned in Belfast yesterday ..

... LARNE-STRANRAER SHIP AT DUNKIRK Shell HiU Engine-room: Several Casualties It was learned in Belfast yesterday that one the L.M.S. steamers on the Larne- Stranraer service suffered during the evacuation of Dunkirk. A shell passed through the engine-room ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

tatton NEW B.E.F. HAS GONE TO FRANCE MARVEL OF ASSEMBLY PROFITING BY DUNKIRK HOW THE MOVEMENT BEGAN AND HOW IT ..

... tatton NEW B.E.F. HAS GONE TO FRANCE MARVEL OF ASSEMBLY PROFITING BY DUNKIRK HOW THE MOVEMENT BEGAN AND HOW IT GATHERED POWER A NEW R.E.F. IS IN FRANCE. SOME DAYS AGO THREE TRAINS CRAMMED WITH TROOPS ARRIVED AT A SOUTHERN ENGLISH PORT IN A SINGLE HOUR ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 113 | Page: 7 | Tags: none