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HEROISM AT DUNKIRK,

... HEROISM AT DUNKIRK, Sir VICTOR WARRENDER said 125 civilians were killed and 81 wounded in aiding the Navy to remove men of the B.E.F. and the French Army from Dunkirk. Of these, four killed and two wounded were civilian volunteers and the rest men of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 420 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

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

MEN IN THE DUNKIRK EPIC

... MEN IN THE DUNKIRK EPIC. APPRECIATIVE NEIGHBOURS. Private John Payne, Spring Street, and Gunner Harry Magill, MaYmount Street. survivors of Dunkirk, each received a presentation from their neighbours and friends on Monday evening to mark their safe return ...

Published: Tuesday 18 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 145 | Page: 6 | 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

UNSCRATCHED AT DUNKIRK —HIT BY CAR ON LEAVE

... UNSCRATCHED AT DUNKIRK —HIT BY CAR ON LEAVE First-Class Stoker Thomas Snowden, of Westbourne, near Chichester, on leave after serving in a destroyer which took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, yesterday was knocked off his cycle a car and hurled into ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

had a GUINNESS CIVILIANS AT DUNKIRK

... GUINNESS CIVILIANS AT DUNKIRK 125 Killed and 81 Wounded Sir Victor Warrender, Financial Secretary to the War Office, stated at Westminster yesterday that 125 civilians were killed and 81 wounded in aiding the Navy in the evacuation from Dunkirk. Of these, four ...

Published: Wednesday 19 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 172 | Page: 6 | 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

HONOURS DUNKIRK HEROES. —At Bellevue Street, ShanklU Road, on Saturday Sgt. H. Snoddy, CpL A. Johnston, Pte. J. ..

... HONOURS DUNKIRK HEROES. —At Bellevue Street, ShanklU Road, on Saturday Sgt. H. Snoddy, CpL A. Johnston, Pte. J. Russell and Pte. J. Murdock were the recipients gifts from their friends and neighbours, Mr. J, Martin presided at the ceremony and Mr. S. ...

Published: Monday 17 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: 6 | Tags: none