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HEROES OF DUNKIRK

... HEROES OF DUNKIRK THE KING DECORATES ULSTER OFFICERS TWO RECEIVE THE D.S.O. The King travelled to the West of England yesterday to decorate officeheroes of the Dunkirk evacuation. made a 60 miles tour of a division in the Southern Command, and wherever ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 342 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MEN FROM DUNKIRK

... MEN FROM DUNKIRK. As the Ministerial Staff left others took their places, including men from Dunkirk via Britain. They were full of cheer and resolute, even before they had had a refreshing sleep, and early yesterday morning were already performing their ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Irish Links With Dunkirk

... Irish Links With Dunkirk HOn far foreign fte:ds from Dunkirk to Be grade I Lie the so.dters and chiefs of the Irish Brigade THE Irish Brigade (although broken 1 up during the French Revolution) had remarkable associations with Dunkirk. and Irishmen nobly ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

QUEKN CHATS WITH DUNKIRK HEROES

... QUEKN CHATS WITH DUNKIRK HEROES When the Queen informally viaited the Over-Seas Club, Loudon, yesterday a number of New Zealand and Canadian airmen, Newfoundland troops. South African sailors, and nurses from overseas, including some Australian nurses ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HERO OF DUNKIRK RESCUE. BOMBARDIER BROCKERTON TAKES BELFAST BRIDE

... HERO OF DUNKIRK RESCUE. BOMBARDIER BROCKERTON TAKES BELFAST BRIDE. Famous as a racing motor-cyclist in Ulster in pre-war days and now more famous still as the man who saved 81 men from almost certain death in a Dunkirk cellar, Lance Bombardier George ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 121 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CHURCH OF THE 3UNEB

... OF THE 3UNEB DUNKIRK itself is of considerabk. historic interest. It owes 3 origin. it is said, to the church built by St. Eioi in th- 7th century. This building. taised in the midst of dreary and featureless sandhills, was called Dunkirk—the Church of ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 243 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BY SEAN CRAWFORD

... OIARARAS OF DUNKIRK to the Revolution in France various O'Meara' were officers there in the Irish Tkigade, from the rank of sub-lieutenant to that of colonel. Many also were Chevaliers of St. Louis, and M. de la Ponce specifies four as born at Dunkirk from 1752 ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 273 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

H.C.B. FOR FRENCH ADMIRAL

... C.B. FOR FRENCH ADMIRAL. The award of an Hon. K.C.B. (military) to Admiral Jean Marie Charles Abrial, for services in the Dunkirk withdrawal is announced by the Admiralty. ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 28 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DESTITUTE OF DEFENCE

... DESTITUTE OF DEFENCE THE Duke a York described Dunkirk as being destitute of any real defence againt his force of over 35.000 THOS. JOHNSON & SONS LTD., ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 27 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A HEARTENING SIGHT

... for one or two things extra as the result of the experience of two of my officers and about eight the men who got back from Dunkirk. I rang up the War Office for one very Important item. Though it not an authorised store they have taken my word for it that ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 5 | Tags: none