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AT DUNKIRK EVACUATION

... DUNKIRK EVACUATION The French Adniiraltr announced on Tuesday night that seven French destroyers and a supply ship were lost the Dunkirk evacuation, but that moat tl* crew* were saved. The British communique stater! that the evacuation has now been s ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

KILLED AT DUNKIRK

... KILLED AT DUNKIRK Second-Lieut. Robin N. C. Scott. R.A. son of Mr. R. N. C. Scott. Eisleben House. Stranraillis, Belfast, a director of the firm of John K. Scott, Ltd., Church Street, has been killed in action at Dunkirk. He was 23 years of ajfe and unmarried ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 163 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CHURCH PRESIDENT AND DUNKIRK

... evil is won, it will be seen that the epic of Dunkirk may well stand beside that of Trafalgar and Waterloo. --- othMeniii . ve now entered on the second phase of the war. May we not expect that the God of Dunkirk will be the God of the Somme and the Aisne ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 721 | Page: 3 | 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

TWENTY VESSELS LOST

... TWENTY VESSELS LOST Mr. Ronald Cross, Minister Ship, ping, broadcasting last night on the part of the Merchant Navy in the Dunkirk evacuation, said they would never have complete list of all the vessels that took part “Never was there more fantastic armada ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 278 | Page: 2 | 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

TOOK OVER COMMAND

... TOOK OVER COMMAND DUNKIRK Distinguished Ulster Soldier A distinguished Ulster soldier, Major-General the Hon. H. R. Alexander, D. 5.0., M.C., brother the Earl of Caledon, was the less senior officer who took over command at Dunkirk when Lord Gort, British ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

died on active service

... died on active service Scott— Killed in action at Dunkirk .:h May, 1940, Robin N. C., Second K.A., aged 23 years, dearlykelnvcd son o£ Robert N. C. and the tc D. Scott, Eisleben House, Stranmillls, Belfast. ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 36 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CELTIC PARK

... i ECLIPSE S’STAKES CHAMPIONSHIP SPRINT Seven Races, Rassworf Stand 314, Ladles ll Popular Eno. Sd, “FANTASTIC ARMADA AT DUNKIRK ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 33 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MN 118111 SWIM A Yong IMoreau

... MN 118111 A IMoreau. - The senior °Beer to whom Lord handed rner enenusand of the remaining troops at Dunkirk when he returned to England last gaturtay wax Niajor-General 11. IL Aksander. an l'lsterntan, and brother of Ilßri 4.1 (*ateduli. - li - e - ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Fewer Questiom This Week

... victory. The Dunkirk Evacuation Three fire-fighting motor-boats belonging to the London County Council helped in the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk. The boats, which can do 30 knots, made several fast trips to and from Dunkirk, manned by their ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 657 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SEMI 1111. TAMES NMI. Large U.A.F. Attack es Esmay Troops

... SEMI TAMES NMI. U.A.F. Attack es Troops. iiirres of tica v R.A.I. bombers enemy advancing to Dunkirk enemy !pattern's shelling the on Tuesday night. . . . In tfermani refineries.. ail tanks. depots. and marshalling yards In the Ruhr valle). in Rhenish ...

Published: Friday 07 June 1940
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 8 | Tags: none