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“ 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

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

BACK TO THAMES

... Luxury motor cruisers and other small craft which went from the Thames to rescue thousands of the 8.8. F. from the beaches of Dunkirk returned to their home moorings yesterday. As they passed beneath London Bridge spectators gave cheer, which was taken up ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 72 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TABLES AS GANGWAYS

... told yesterday by Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay, K.C.8., who commanded the Naval forces from Dover which went to the relied of Dunkirk. Admiral Ramsay said that when the Germans reached a point only roughly 20 miles across the Channel, the people at the Admiralty ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BELFAST NEWS-LETTER, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1940

... the heart and mind of our country when I say that every fort in Canada will be another Calais, and every harbour another Dunkirk, before the men and women of our land allow the light and life of their Christian faith to extinguished by the powers of evil ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE WAR BONUS

... members who arc also serving officers have expressed a wish to discuss the chain events which led up to the evacuation of Dunkirk, and others would like the House to consider the responsibility past and present members of the Government for alleged in ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AROUND AND ABOUT .. GLEANINGS

... uncle, General A. F. Brooke, was one of the three senior officers received by the King the other day on their return from Dunkirk. A cousin, Lieutenant-General Sir Norman Sergison-Brooke, holds one of the most Important commands in England, and another ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 989 | Page: 4 | Tags: none