From The Times, Monday, July 8, 1940 ARMY AWARDS GALLANT REARGUARD ACTIONS FINE LEADERSHIP AND COURAGE The War Office issues the following list...
Major Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews, East Lancashire Regiment, was awarded the Victoria Cross in July, 1940, one of the first two Army V.C.s of the...
For information. I have been tracing my fathers records as he was captured in the rearguard actions toward Dunkirk May 1940. I have had all...
Hopefully I'm going to do another Dunkirk trip this year on my bike. It will probably be the same format as my last trip riding from Cassel to the...
Before my father died 2 yrs ago I taped some of our conversations about the war and transcribed them. Thomas Heald Mitchell No.1873128 4.5.1936...
Hi Guys, Do you have any stories regarding the BEF units that held up the Germans to keep the escape going? I'm looking for subject matter on...
[Name and date of publication unknown, but may be from The Times] MAJ-GEN SIR ALLAN ADAIR [b 3 November 1897, d 4 August 1988] Wartime Liberator...
Hi. Just reading 'Finest Hour' by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig. What a fantastic book on 1940. Can anyone recommend any more books written on events...
I have just finished reading McEwan's book 'Atonement'. In it he describes a scene where troops waiting to be evacuated turn on an RAF pilot,...
Hi. I have the war time reminisces of Pte H Parker of the above Battalion who was taken prisoner in the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and which then...
Hello My late grandfather was a pre-war territorial with the Queen's Regiment (West Surrey's) who served in France with the BEF April-May 1940....
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