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WOULD NOT TAKE BOAT

... TAKE BOAT TO DUNKIRK Two Life-boatmen Dismissed The coxswain and motor mechanic of the Hythe (Kent) life-hoat have been dismissed from the life-boat service as a result of a refusal of the crew to assist in the B.E.F. evacuation at Dunkirk. Those members ...

Published: Friday 28 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

\ROUND AN

... heard ■’ on the air occasionally, and is a well-known figure in Strangfon* Lough yachting circles. Tanks at Dunkirk A soldier back from Dunkirk has told me a story which will please those old Servicemen who think that the Army la not as smart as it used ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 377 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BIRTHDAY PRESENT FROM

... FLANDERS Soldier Son Had Mot Forgotten A birthday present sent o£C by her soldier son In Flanders before the evacuation from Dunkirk has just been received by Mrs. Grelg, of Bonnygate, Angus, Fifeshlre. The parcel, battered and torn, was found by Private ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ULSTER AND THE WAR

... ULSTER AND THE WAR Belfast M.P. Wounded at Dunkirk Lieut. G, A. Clark, M.P. for the Dock division in the Northern House of Commons, who is a subaltern in the Black Watch, has arrived at the home of his parents, Sir George Clark and Lady Clark, Greenisland ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 179 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SAVED THE GUNS

... cyclists. He opened fire, and killed three motor cyclists. The remainder fled. L/Cpl. J. R. Cox, East Yorkshire Regiment—At Dunkirk during the shelling on the mole he displayed great presence of mind and a complete disregard for his own safety. Private J ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 234 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LEANINGS FROM TOWN AND COUNTRY

... farther afield, and are really becoming quite learned in the ways of Ulster. Reunited Stories of Ulster soldiers who were at Dunkirk continue to be told. Perhaps the most recent is an account of how three men who worked together in peace time were reunited ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ARMIES SEPARATED

... mechanised columns and aeroplanes, which needed such large quantities of petrol, if the Allies had not suffered so heavily at Dunkirk. And if it had been possible for the French to hold the Germans on the Seine and the Somme, It is possible that a defeat would ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 171 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BELFAST STOCK EXCHANGE

... notes, the gift of his neighbours, on Saturday. Private Spence was engaged in the fighting In Flanders and was evacuated from Dunkirk. The presentation was made by Rev. D. W. Griffiths, of Immanuel Church, Ardoyne. ...

Published: Tuesday 25 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LESSON GERMANS LEARNT

... closed. In the armies and divisions the morale was good, but the losses in men and material, in the initial operations and at Dunkirk, were catastrophic. Subseauently heroism, brilliant tactics, and unceasing fighting never made up for this initial defeat ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

VLSTER and the war

... is known that Captain Workman bad a number of his men with him at the time he was taken prisoner during retirement towards Dunkirk, but no information has been obtained of how many men there were, or their names. Captain Workman was second-incommand of ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

shot down three without sustaining any loss. The three shot down were Messerschmidt 109’s. and part of 17 ..

... them, and inflicted heavy damage. This success was achieved by a squadron of Spitfires which in a single day during the Dunkirk evacuation shot down ten German fighters and an enemy army co-operation aircraft, and damaged five more fighters.” The German ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Mainly for Women

... that she has been seeking out clubs and canteens In her home county, where she can find men of the B.E.F. who are home from Dunkirk. At a Y.M.C.A. centre the Princess spent a whole afternoon listening to the stories some of the men bad to tell. Her shyness ...

Published: Monday 24 June 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 528 | Page: 7 | Tags: none