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LARNE MAN AT DUNKIRK

... LARNE MAN AT DUNKIRK Rowing the Troops to Safety THEHK is doubt about Hie superiority the R-A.F. saw many doKflghts over the Channel and can say that the Spitttres taking four times their number of German •planes and driving them into the clouds This ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 973 | Page: 3 | 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

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

SOLDIER-JOCKEY BACK

... SOLDIER-JOCKEY BACK. Fred Hunter, the jockey, has returned with the last batch of the B.E.F. to be evacuated from Dunkirk. He was apprenticed to Stanley Wootton, the Epsom trainer, and last year rode for the Hon. G. Wellesley in Ireland. ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 40 | Page: 6 | 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

SOLDIER WHO POSED AS HERO

... SOLDIER WHO POSED AS HERO. Cyril Tunnicliffe. 22-year-old soldier. imposed on people by telling of his experiences at Dunkirk. He gained access to a house in Chelsea, S.W.. to clean his buttons. While there he stole a passport from a young woman. ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BELFAST CENTRAL MISSION

... at Grosvenor Hall. At the morning service Rev. John N. Spence preached, making special reference to the deliverance from Dunkirk. The choir rendered special music. The evening service was conducted by Rev. Alfred Collins. The soloist was Miss Evelyn Gibb ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LIVERPOOL GRAIN TRADE

... to dav», 11.50. Freight—Tottoo. 1 .tv f.ru. ; st.nd.nl. n-nt*. Ol.i, • -J-.ity 'so Sr, ,s,tn—July 6-.. ADMIRAL’S STORY OF DUNKIRK B.E.F. Walked Plank to Safety SMALL band of Junior officer* working secret control room helped to direct the evacuation which ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 567 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ARROWS INDICATE THE CHIEF AREAS PENETRATED BY THE GERMAN ADVANCE UNITS. THE BATTLE LINE SHOWN MARKS THE ..

... in letters to her parents the B.E.F. evacuation from Dunkirk, tells of the merciless bombing and machine-gunning by the Nazis of a British hospital ship in mid-Channel. On her sixth crossing to Dunkirk. nine Nazi planes raked the ship's deck and dropped ...

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 990 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

V‘Sr*'l'

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

Published: Monday 10 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 5 | Tags: none