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R.A.F

... R.A.F. The full dramatic story of the Dunkirk EVACUATION. “A MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE” FOLLOWING “A COLOSSAL MILITARY DEFEAT” WAS RELATED BY THE PRIME MINISTER TO A TENSELY ATTENTIVE HOUSE OF COMMONS week ago thought that from 20,000 to 20,000 men might ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2029 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NATIONAL Y.M.C.A. SECRETARY

... spirit. They must enable those men to retain their morale and their balance of mind and spirit. The mobile Y.M.C.A. canteen at Dunkirk had been able to do much for the men along those lines. Miss Stirling and other voluntary workers in Ballymena were working ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 698 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ALLIED FORCES NORWAY LEAVE KING AND GOVERNMENT ARE NOW IN BRITAIN

... S. Amery. Secretary of State for India, at their woodland camp, somewhere in Surrey. When the Indians were evacuated from Dunkirk with the B.E.F. they had, to their great regret, to leave their wonderful mules behind. The Commander of one ot the units ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 634 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HOURS OF TRAINING

... a mile. MORE THAN A MATCH FOR ENEMY tor battery to whic“ &mb.rdier MWbney assistance and the enemy was routed. ArHvfnVt Dunkirk fey a ter some days, to get away in the ] large fishing trawler which wal {. crammed with British troops. While wait th^^ ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 709 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OBITUARY

... the Dunkirk evacuation, and was home recently on sick leave, being slightly wounded. Aircraftsman Walter Reynolds, w'hose mother resides at 15, Pound Cottages, Bollymena, is now back English air base after having taken part in the battle of Dunkirk. has ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1480 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

-Not Step by Step

... the other w.U day—a week ago to-day answe r may well be, No, I from France, not xrom W arn you, the generation coming—ano Dunkirk and got back to London 1 lam glad I belong to it—are not going • certain d^&nd'St amount of disturbance and unrest in rect ...

Published: Saturday 29 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 918 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

POWER or THE NAVY

... quanuues. , .xml there Cock, rung 1940. flown unflown (con to improve the rate of three .rf D. Kv-mohan Bow , iour to one at Dunkirk. (Cheer?.) will a larsce h Rallvrae'na *3, S. M CYcta - , do. Hen—l. addition, all injured machines and their ui t near future ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 950 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940

... Channel are being foiled by German air attacks against those Channel ports which are still In the enemy's hands. “The Port of Dunkirk was destroyed by firs. “No important events on the Southern Front.”—Reuter. B.E.F. NOT BEATEN. HOW THEY HELP FRANCE BATTLE ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1276 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

111 111 Ml Roads Which Lead To Nowhere

... pointing fingers, Up-to-date note in a Belfast suburb. A semi-detached villa —on the gate of which appears a name-plate reading Dunkirk.” COUNTRY roads, you are reaularly familiar with them, apparently lead to nowhere nowadays. The motorist pre-war days who ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1156 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FRANCE COURAGE OF HER WOMEN

... all people* of the world. WOUNDED. BUT CHEERFUL. “A few days ago I was visiting in our hospitals the French wounded from Dunkirk; each them I m French and asked how they were getting on. All of them, even the most seriously wounded, answered cheer fullv ...

Published: Friday 21 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1307 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SEALED BY LEOPOLD

... LEOPOLD The Archbishop of York, Dr. Temple, speaking at, the York Dim Conference, said that surely the great deliverance Dunkirk wa.? an act Go-! which proved the effectiveness national prayer. We must recognise that we had our share of blame for the ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1438 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUR WAR REVIEW on Land and Sea and in the Air

... describes as curtains of bombs an effort to protect the Allied Army in the North. He slates that the ; French arc still holding Dunkirk. It is estimated that some 300.000 Belgians have laid down their arms ; in accordance with King Leopolds instruction. _ . ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1906 | Page: 6 | Tags: none