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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

SEAT FOR MR. BEVIM

... Seaman 8. Feeley, H.M.S. Basilisk, who was In the Narvik action and afterwards at Dunkirk, where hi, thlp'wat »unk, •nd Gunner H. M'Velgh, who was also Jhrough Dunkirk. The prcuntatlon, were made on bohalt o» the neighbouro ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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... enemy aircraft and probably a further six over the Dunkirk area yesterday. Eight of our fighters are missing. “Seventy - eight Nazi bombers and fighters were destroyed or severely damaged over the Dunkirk beaches between dawn and seven o’clock Saturday. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 511 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

UNEASY CALM SETTLES ON REST OF WESTERN FRONT

... UNEASY CALM SETTLES ON REST OF WESTERN FRONT BILE the embarkation operations at Dunkirk continue on par- W ticularly large scale, the front from the Somme to the Rhine remains in a state of waiting, it was intimated in Paris last mght. The calm has only ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MILITARY PROMOTIONS

... iug usiliers R. E. Grace (110816), March 23, ISMO. EVACUATED FROM DUNKIRK: MARRIED IN CARNLOUGH Second-Lieut. Wm. Boyd MacLauchlaa, R.E., who was evacuated a lew davs ago from Dunkirk, was married yesterday special licence in Carnlough Presbyterian Church ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 114 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FRENCH GERMAN

... sui'eeeded, r For led rcc, in entering the >wn Bergues. cion round Dunkirk, ill in the hands of the enemy, istant and heavy artillery fire, s and Stuka dive boniber units ieir attacks on Dunkirk yester' jiank two destroyers, one . and one merchantman of 330 ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NINETEEN

... Inmski lings played football on the beach at Dunkirk. Filler Thomas U'Ncill, of the Inniskillings native Arligarvan, said he had no eleep for 7 nights and arrived back in Lngland with onlv shirt and trousers. Dunkirk was like hell upon earth. At one lime ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES

... Ton* in Dunkirk Week The Admiralty announce that the total British mercantile tonnage lost byjweniy action in the «eek ended mtdntsM. Sanda,. June 2, was TR.TIS tone, of which 24.000 tons were lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the hgures ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 260 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

300 GERMAN RAIDERS DROP TRIUMPH OF ALLIED SEA POWER

... carried out from Dunkirk and from beaches in the vicinity. The whole operation was screened by naval forces against any attempt the enemy at interference by sea. In addition to almost incessant bombing and machinegun attacks on Dunkirk, the beaches and ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 830 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

ALREADY SAVEI BRITISH WARNING

... ALREADY SAVEI BRITISH WARNING As Dunkirk Evacuation Goes On ' french SOLDIERS senlry duty brldgo up as measure at the Front. ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 21 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Tanks Slaughter Women

... of the men spent two days in farmhouse on the retreat to Dunkirk. On the way the soldiers destroyed all equipment they could not carry- Gunner Farmer graphically described the scenes in Dunkirk. When they got orders to move in the place was in flames ...

Published: Monday 03 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 189 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Communication, Cut

... which ran first Amiens and afterwards through Abbeville, and it sheared 11s way the coast to Boulogne and Calais, almost Dunkirk. Behind this armoured and meclianiied onslaught number German divisions lorries, and behind again there plodded, comparatively ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 5 | Tags: none