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THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK

... THE EPIC OF DUNKIRK A BELFAST MEMORIAL Suggestion by Lord Bishop of INDOMITABLE MEN I have the hope that In some important part our may be found place to commemorate the epic of Dunkirk, a ition of what those indomitable men suffered and achieved.” , ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ULSTER DEFENDERS OF DUNKIRK

... ULSTER DEFENDERS OF DUNKIRK BOMBED FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS OFFICERS’ STORIES Ulstermen played a gallant part in the defence Dunkirk and in giving cover to the 8.8. F. from attacks by German aircraft. Lieutenant W. Cecil M’Kee, member of Belfast City Council ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

EVER BEFORE SPIRIT OF DUNKIRK

... EVER BEFORE SPIRIT DUNKIRK Millions men and women in Britain are working harder than they have ever worked before—harder, pernaps, than factory workers have ever worked, Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Supply, said yesterday when Introduced a broadcast ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 459 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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

“ WALKED THE PLANK ”

... imagination for a ship to go alongside. The use of this pier was the inspiration of our fellows at Dunkirk. Captain Tennant, who was charge of operations at Dunkirk, and his band of men guided the men to the ships. Narrow mess tables were put across like planks ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 144 | 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

SHIPPING LOSSES

... action in the week ending midnight, Sunday, June 2. was 78,715 tons, of which 24,000 tons were lost during the Dunkirk operations. Excluding Dunkirk, the figures were —British. 11 ships (54,715 tons): Allied, ships (17,913 tons); Neutral, 3 ships (7,923 t ...

Published: Wednesday 12 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FLEET OF LITTLE BOATS

... civilians mostly. They arrived without charts, without fuel and without food. In the end they all went over to the beaches of Dunkirk where their crews acted mostly on their own Initiative. The total numbers were anything from 500 to 800. As boats were sunk ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ULSTER AND THE WAR

... before a reaper.” They also fought gallantly at Brussels, Ypres, and Dunkirk and Nleuport beaches. DUNKIRK EVACUATION Home on a few days’ leave after taking part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, A.B. T. Finnegan, R.N.R., Mill Lane, Lame, said yesterday that ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 522 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SURPRISE FOR TROOPER

... from Dunkirk, Trooper Kennedy told a News-Letter reporter last night. Trooper Kennedy, who has not yet reached bis nineteenth birthday, took part in the Flanders fighting. Brussels dustcart took him and his companions along the road to Dunkirk until ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 139 | Page: 7 | 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