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WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK

... WOUNDED AT DUNKIRK. HAD SEVEN YEARS' SERVICE. Intimation has been received by Mrs. Agnes Smith, King Street, Newry, that her son Rifleman Samuel L. Smith, R.U.R.. has died from wounds received at Dunkirk. Rifleman Smith was aged 28, had seven years' service ...

Published: Tuesday 16 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Scarpe. A bridging train was destroyed Northern France none except Dunkirk DOUGLAS WILLIAMS is better known to ..

... Scarpe. A bridging train was destroyed Northern France none except Dunkirk DOUGLAS WILLIAMS is better known to British soldiers or by our artillery, but the Germtin infantry continued to press forward in to the British public than Arras, a COM - shops ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1979 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Ulster Generals

... lieutenant-general of Major-General H. R. Alexander is also announced, presumably in recognition of his outstanding services at Dunkirk, where he took over during the embarkation when Lord Gort returned home. This is another Ulster distinction. The former commander ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

VISCOUNT GORT'S NEW POST

... the last war, and won the D.S.O. and Bar, and Belgian Croix de Guerre. He commanded the Second Army Corps in France. After Dunkirk, he was received by the King and a knighthood—K.C.B. Military Division—was conferred upon him. He is a son of the late Sir ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

area, and would be

... having been brought up by his grandparents. One of his uncles is also in the Army, and was one of those safely evacuated from Dunkirk. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ORGAN MAY BE CUT IN CLIFF

... total losses are estimated at not less than £70,000. Here is the story of the Y.M.CA. at Dunkirk, told by one of the workers who was there:— It appeared that Dunkirk was in Imminent danger of being captured like Calais and Boulogne. All day German planes ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 871 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BRIDE’S BOUQUET

... Corporal has shown while a patient at the hospital suffering from serious wounds received when he was serving with the B.E.F. at Dunkirk. “He Is the pluckiest patient in the hospital,” said the bride. ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 95 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

FRACTURED SKULL

... Connell), for James Bleakley, mentioned that Layton had been an expert motor-cyclist in France, and had been in France and at Dunkirk. ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Ulstermen Made Defence Chiefs

... brother of the Earl of Caledon. [ the less senior officer to whom Lord | Gort handed over command the remain i ing troops at Dunkirk when he returned to I England has been appointed a Lieutenant- General and is the youngest officer of this I rank the British ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BARONET IS A PRISONER. FIANCEE RECEIVES LETTER

... in Germany. Earlier thi• month he had been reported missing. was last seen at the end of May at Cassel, fifteen miles from Dunkirk, after the battle of Poperinghe. Sir Henry's fiancee, Miss Diana Howard Thompson, of Bishton Manor, Albrighton, Shropshire ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 152 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

KILLED HERE

... KILLED HERE ESCAPED DUNKIRK, Army Officer's Fatal A verdict of accidental death was returned by Dr. T. L. Ross, deputy coroner for the Belfast division of County Antrim, the inquest in Lisburn yesterday on 2nd Lieut. Walter H. Layton. Royal Corps of Signals ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ABOUT

... to learn the true march of events. The energetic editor even produced a number of specials.” One of these dealt with the Dunkirk evacuation. ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 223 | Page: 4 | Tags: none