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BACK TO THAMES

... Luxury motor cruisers and other small craft which went from the Thames to rescue thousands of the 8.8. F. from the beaches of Dunkirk returned to their home moorings yesterday. As they passed beneath London Bridge spectators gave cheer, which was taken up ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FOG HAMPERS GERMAN

... says. Dense fog over the Channel giving cover to the British in their headlong flight. The last resistance offered around Dunkirk restricted to a narrow area of a depth of about six miles, the commentary continues. Big Claims The High Command communique ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 264 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LEANINGS FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY

... farther afield, and are really becoming quite learned in the ways of Ulster. Reunited Stories of Ulster soldiers who were at Dunkirk continue to be told. Perhaps the most recent is an account of how three men who worked together in peace time were reunited ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ADMIRALTY MESSAGE

... Admiralty congratulates all concerned in the successful evacuation of the B.E.F. and the soldiers of the Allied Armies from the Dunkirk area. Their Lordships appreciate the' splendid endurance with which all ships and personnel faced the continuous attack of ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COAST DEFENCE

... knowledge of modem warfare may he inculcated into the Home Defence Forces the experience officers of the B.E.F. who have survived Dunkirk and France will be available for training purposes. Colossal efforts are being made to strengthen our coastal defences and ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

STAND ON YSER LINE

... required on the line. There is confirmation that troops are holding the region west the Yser and the entrenched camp near Dunkirk. An officer who has just returned to London speaks of the “ stunning effect of the air bombardment. Although he went through ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 323 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

COURT AND SOCIETY BUCKINGHAM PALACE, Friday. The King held a Counell this mornir„ t 10-30 o’clock. There were ..

... Councilor James Hamilton, P., for Londonderry County Borough. NAVAL HEROES Awards for Work at Dunkirk The first list of honours to the naval heroes of Dunkirk was published in a supplement to the London Gazette last night. Awards are made for good sendees ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 431 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Huge Force

... lorries and other transport Material, without losing: a single tank their own. •'larch to Dunkirk the north our troops have contmued their march towards Dunkirk, hare a portion of them were able to embark under the protection of the •'avy and Air Force ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 499 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ROBBERY BY CAR

... 10s paid back by defendants. LISBURN CATHEDRAL WEDDING Bridegroom Home From Dunkirk Lance-Bombardier James M'Cartney, R.A., who participated in the B.E.F. evacuation of Dunkirk, was married in Lisburn Cathedral yesterday afternoon to Miss Jean Allister ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... From a Christian people who, looking beyond the amaring efforts of men, see the Hand of God in that mighty deliverance at Dunkirk, heartfelt thanks must flow aboundlngly, and it la appropriate that their feelings of gratitude should find expression in ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NO SLEEP FOR 27 DAYS

... presented with gifts the Rev. T. A. H. Moriarty, on behalf of residents in the district. M’NelU, who was in the evacuation from Dunkirk, said that he had had no sleep for 27 days. At one time men in his unit marched over 100 miles in 36 hours. ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FLOODS STOP T

... FLOODS STOP T PARIS, Friday. THE German Army, foiled in its attack on Dunkirk by rising flood waters, which Allied engineers have loosed over the Flanders plain, redoubled its efforts to-day to cut off the French rearguard fighting its way to the toast ...

Published: Saturday 01 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 5 | Tags: none