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Ballymena Weekly Telegraph

Defenders Of Dunkirk

... Defenders Of Dunkirk. The last defenders Dunkirkthe heroic rearguard—are stated to have been embarked during the night and the opening hours of the morning. Before they left the port of Dunkirk Is said to have been left useless. Mr. Churchill, in British ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

OUR WAR REVIEW on Land and Sea and in the Air

... General Prioux's French troops are falling back on Dunkirk i the Germans are making every attempt cut off and capture them. “Corunna Line.' , To safeguard the western flank i and keep the way to Dunkirk open their French comrades In arms, S British troops ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1726 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WEEKLY TELFjGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1940 MR. HENRY HAVERON

... three weeks ago. Although he had the option of sigmngoff when the ship was brought into service to assist in the evacuation Dunkirk, he refused to leave and manfully stuck at his job during the hazards that followed, until he received his fatal wound. His ...

Published: Saturday 08 June 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 580 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

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