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REFERENCE TO DUNKIRK

... REFERENCE TO DUNKIRK. In jibe at England, Hitler declared— Their most glorious victory—which in our eyes was their most contemptible failurewas the flight from Dunkirk.” RUB AT POLITICIANS. Hitler said—“ The case is not as some British politicians put ...

Published: Saturday 07 September 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ONE OF DUNKIRK HEROES

... ONE OF DUNKIRK HEROES Pilot-Officer David Whitley. 21-yearoW son of Mr. and Mrs. David E. Whitley, 51, De Parys Avenue, Bedford, has been killed during air operations. Pilot-Officer Whitley was horn in Belfast and received part his early education at ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRITISH ATTACK ON MEDITERRANEAN IS FRENCH PORTS. OUR SEA. BOULOGNE TO DUNKIRK. FAILURE OF ITALIANS WHOLE COAST ..

... BRITISH ATTACK ON MEDITERRANEAN IS FRENCH PORTS. OUR SEA. BOULOGNE TO DUNKIRK. FAILURE OF ITALIANS WHOLE COAST LIT UP. TO EMERGE FROM HIDING. HEAVIEST BOMBARDMENT YET. BOMBING ATTACK ON SARDINIA. Throughout the night and early this GIBRALTAR, Friday.—The ...

Published: Friday 06 September 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 424 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Saved Woman’s Life

... SERVICE AT DUNKIRK Awards For Many Ulstermen ¥T has just been announced that H.M. the King has honoured members of Ihe crew of H.M. transport Dorrien Rose for good services In the withdrawal of the Alied armies from the beaches at Dunkirk.” These honours ...

Published: Tuesday 10 September 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

COXSWAINS DECORATED

... COXSWAINS DECORATED Ferried Troops from Dunkirk The Distinguished Service Medal for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops from the beaches at Dunkirk has been conferred upon Mr. Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, coxswain Ramsgate life-boat, and ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

newly • created post of Inspector General so that his experience might utilized to co ordinate and super- Mze the

... Victoria Barracks, During recent operations in France, Including the Dunkirk evacuation, Major General Eastwood served with distinction immediately under General Pownall. Since the Dunkirk evacuation he has commanded division in England. ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1940
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 108 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

BELFAST TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940, MILITARY UNIT'S APPEAL

... EQUIPMENT AT DUNKIRK. A meeting of the Regional League was held in Belfast on Wednesday evening last. Mr. W. A. Mullan presiding, at which a unit in Ulster wrote pointing out that they had lost all their sports equipment in the ' : evacuation at Dunkirk, and ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 1940
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DAYLIGHT RAIDS

... DAYLIGHT RAIDS Harassing Tactics at Invasion Ports Daylight raids on Calais, Ostend, Dunkirk, and Veere were carried out on Monday afternoon by medium bombers rj the Royal Air Force, states the Air Ministry. At Veere, on the Dutch island Walcheren, a ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SOLDIERS

... Ptc. M ‘Auiey. who lived at Ballynease, Portglenone. before joining previous the outbreak of war, was captured May 28 at Dunkirk. He states that cigarettes are very scarce the camp where is prisoner, and have forwarded his complaint to the Ballvmena Comforts ...

Published: Friday 13 September 1940
Newspaper: Ballymena Observer
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 159 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DE TO SOLDIERS

... never said that there was sugar England, or that the people there were starving. The soldiers asked him what he thought of Dunkirk, aijd he said it could not be helped: that it was a good enough per* formance on the part of the British Navy in getting the ...

Published: Tuesday 03 September 1940
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 208 | Page: 3 | Tags: none