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AROUND AN

... AROUND Battle of Dunkirk Dunes My reference to Dunkirk and the now famous evacuation has recalled to correspondent the story of another occasion, nearly 300 years ago, when British and French soldiers were alliance on the dunes Dunkirk and administered ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

COUNCIL EXAMINATIONS

... 9b / stlmj DUNKIRK HERO HONOURED BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS Able-Seaman Victor Kelly, of 61, Derwent Street, Newtownards Road, receiving from Councillor T. E. Colo gifts a wallet of notes, wristlet watch and a razor. He served at Dunkirk on H.M.B. Grafton ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 50 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CORRESP' THANKSGIVING

... over evil is won, it will seen that the epic of Dunkirk may well stand beside that of Trafalgar and Waterloo. Our men have now entered on the second phase the war. May not expect that the God of Dunkirk will the God of the Somme and the Even military ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 515 | Page: 4 | 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

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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

7 The Life-boat Service

... rescued from peril sea. In addition, life-boats played most valuable part in transporting British and French troops from Dunkirk to ports in England, one boat alone carrying on its various journeys an aggregate of 2,800 men. Such an Institution is, surely ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BOAT BOMBED AND SET

... BOAT BOMBED AND SET ON FIRE Belfast Doctor the Only Survivor The story of a Belfast doctor’s escape from Dunkirk was related to ’’ News- Letter reporter yesterday by his mother. He is Captain William George Bateson, of the R.A.M.C., whose parents, Mr ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

INSTITUTION THE BELFAST BRANCH GALLANTRY OF CREWS

... secretary of the Institution. Mr. Fuge told of the part played by the life-boat service in the evacuation the troops from Dunkirk, and said that one boat had brought back a total of 2,800 men. The R.N.L.I. service, Mr. Fuge said, was the finest thing we ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

REPORTED MISSING

... Lance-Bombardier E. M‘ C 1 e William Street, and Gunner Hamilton Foster Place. Lurgan, who were wounded during the air raids over Dunkirk, are in hospital in England. “MISSING” MEN SAFE Henry M’Ateer, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Lancasterian Street. ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 7 | Tags: none