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TRAGIC BRIDE T0 BE

... TRAGIC BRIDE T0 BE young naval officer, fatally wounded when his ship was attacked by planes off Dunkirk, carried on firing at the enemy until he had landed his machine. Meanwhile home port, his bride-to-be waited in vain for a telephone call to tell ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THEBE WAS NO CO-OBDINATION,

... Address Paper Pattern No, 975. Bust Enclosed BALLYMENA SOLDIER! WOUNDED. WAS IN DUNKIRK BATTLE. NOW IN ENGLISH HOSPITAL. Wounded while serving with the B.E.F. in the Dunkirk operations Rifleman James Jordan now in hoSpital in England. His mother, Mrs. Mary ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1198 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRITISH COMMAND

... 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: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ULSTER RIFLES STEM PRUSSIAN GUARDS

... ULSTER RIFLES STEM PRUSSIAN GUARDS His escape during the Dunkirk evacuation is mentioned in letter received by Mr. and Mrs. John Craig, Lower Main Street, Strabane, from their son, Rifleman William Craig, Royal Ulster Rifles, who has reached Britain wounded ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 184 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

VALIANT VOLUNTEERS

... interfereooe by sea. In addition to almost it.omMKit bombntg and marbrne-giui attacks u;; Dunkirk. beaches and the vessels operating off them, the port of Dunkirk and the shipping plying to cum! fro were under frequent shell fire. This was to some extent ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 353 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CAME THROUGH UNSCATHED

... James Law. who L only 18 years age. and son of Mrs. E. Nevin. 31 North Street, Ballymena, was on*, the troops evacuated from Dunkirk, and he came through unscathed. is serving with the Royal Ulster Rifles. ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

SUPERIORITY OF OUR R.A.F

... evacuation of Dunkirk. A.B. Finnegan is a married man with seven children. His father fought in the last war and was wounded at Loos. In an interview, A.B. Finnegan said he was engaged with 72 other ratings in rowing troops from the beach at Dunkirk to waiting ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 247 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LEFT CALAIS IN LAST

... harrowing scenes witnessed leing the bombing and machine gunning of helpless refugees brutal Nazi air men. For two days was at Dunkirk, where the bombing aas almost incessant, and was then sent to Calais. There the Allied soldiers perienoed heavy shell fire ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ITALY S ENTRY

... Continent, and that the hope of Europe reets the succes* the very forces which have ravished the countries they hav© invaded. DUNKIRK FEAT OF MERCHANT CREWS ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ULSTER’S HEROIC PART IN THE WAR

... with the B.E.F. in Dunkirk, and is now in hospital in England. Sergt. Lyttle has been in the Army seven years. His Sergt. Thomas brother. John Lyttle. Lyttle. served throughout the last war. YOUNG BELFAST SOLDIER WAS WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK. FATHER WITH RIFLES ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 745 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ALL MATERIAL RESOURCES

... number Italia. - maiding Northern Ireland. BALLYMENA SOLDIER HOME FROM DUNKIRK STAYFD UNTIL THE END HELPING WOUNDED BOMBED COMING BACK The recent epic evacuation *he F from Dunkirk thrilled the whole world it interesting record Private William R. Avery ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 759 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUR WAR REVIEW on Land and Sea and in the Air

... General Prioux's French troops are falling back on Dunkirk i the Germans are making every attempt cut off and capture them. “Corunna Line.' , To safeguard the western flank i and keep the way to Dunkirk open their French comrades In arms, S British troops ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1726 | Page: 6 | Tags: none