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DUNKIRK HERO AT CITY HALL.—Gunner F. Patterson, R.N.. 48 Saunders ANNUAL MEETING IN OPEN-AlR.—Mrs. D. Lindsay ..

... DUNKIRK HERO AT CITY HALL.—Gunner F. Patterson, R.N.. 48 Saunders ANNUAL MEETING IN OPEN-AlR.—Mrs. D. Lindsay Keir (Vice-President) speaking at the annual meeting of Street, Belfast, was received on Thursday by the Lord Mayor in his Parlour. the Ulster ...

Published: Friday 14 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1079 | Page: 10 | 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

COLERAINE MAN IN HOSPITAL

... COLERAINE MAN IN HOSPITAL. WAS AT DUNKIRK FIGHTING. FATHER WOUNDED IN LAST WAR. Mrs. Crawford, Ballysolly. Coleraine, has been Informed by the War Office that her son, Private Thomas Crawford, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, has been ivolinded and•is in ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 4 | 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

ON THEIR WAY TO BALTIC

... small craft of motor type 'WO HOME FROM DUNKIRK. SEAMEN HONOURED BY NEIGHBOURS. Two young Belfast seamen. Sam Blair. R N.. of 31 Northwood Drive. and Frank Johnston. R.N., 34 Northwood Road, who took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. were honoured by their friends ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 7 | Tags: none