... PRISONER Lieut. J. W. S. Irwin, R.A.M.C., the Irish rugby internationalist, who was reported missing after the evacuation from Dunkirk, is prisoner of war in Germany. Irwin played against England and Scotland in 1938 and 1939 and against Wales in 1939. ...

... NAVYMIN GAINS AWARD The D.S.M. hftS drt nV ee J room Artificer i,ajl eS - f whose home is . t 1 line. l °' Award has been Dunkirk evacuatio^-^^l ...

... success to success, really she had been thrice defeated. First, she had failed to break the British Secondly came the defeat of Dunkirk, and thirdly the failure overcome the R.A.F. by weight of numbers. Germany was now launching the fourth battle against civilians ...

... who would have been 27 this month, went to sea dt 15. Two of his three brothers, who are all in the army, came through the Dunkirk evacuation safely. He was expected home leave at the end of the month. The official telegram says is u Missing, feared drowned ...

... The others have been engaged in the present one. and the King and Queen heard stories of Moris and the Marne as well as of Dunkirk. ...

... Another Left Burning The Air Ministry announced last night that aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked an enemy convoy off Dunkirk on Wednesday. One enemy supply ship was sunk. Another force of Coastal Command aircraft operating with the Fleet Air Arm attacked ...

... outbreak and was called up with his unit, in which he had served eight years. The D.C.M. was awarded him for gallant work at Dunkirk. His elder brother, Robert, is also with the Fife and Forfar. while a vounger brother, Gordon, is a sergeant with the Scots ...

... harbour installations. Relays of bombers carried out raids from dusk until nearly midnight against the docks at Gstend, Calais, Dunkirk, and Boulogne. Ostend Docks, in which a large number of laden barges was concentrated, came for the heaviest attacks. In two ...

... followed by an explosion. NIGHT RAIDS. During the night, from shortly after du9k until nearly dawn, the ports of Ostend, Dunkirk, Boulogne, and Calais were heavily bombed by aircraft of the Bomber Command. Many bombs were seen to burst with good effect ...

... War. One of his 6hips was torpedoed and sunk. Another, big tanker, went down after striking a mine in the Channel. went to Dunkirk in H.M. armed boarding vessel King Orrv, onco popular Isle of Man steamer. A bomh hit deck, killing many of the soldiers. ...

... open-air service in Dunfermline Park yesterday. A year ago, he said, we had still go through the experience of Narvik and of Dunkirk. To-day we had to thank God for the spirit of our navy, for men like Warburton Lee, for men like those of the Rawalpindi, ...

... to France in 1938. Captain J. G. Bickford was awarded the D.S.O. last month for good services in the withdrawal from the Dunkirk beaches. On December 22 last year for successful actions against enemy submarines while in command of H.M.S. Express Captain ...