Unfortunately the Bde diary finishes in April. I guess according to his account of unit documents being destroyed that included the brigade diary. I can tell you he was cap badged 1/5 Queens according to the Bde Officer Field Returns and looking in Winser's BEF Ships, before, at and after Dunkirk there is only two possibilities of the ship he was on. One paddle steamer landed at Sheerness on 3rd June and the other - The Royal Eagle landed 1,831 troops at Sheerness on 31st May at 0730hrs and 126 on 2nd June at 1320hrs. Being that he says they arrived in the morning I think its safe to say he was on the Royal Eagle and got back to England on the 31st May.
29th May The withdrawal began immediately the light began to fail, it was imperative that by dawn the infantry should be on Mont des Cats which could be held against tanks or behind the screen afforded by the tanks of the DLM, since to be caught on the move in the open in daylight would invite destruction. Most of the divisions transport was abandoned as there was no prospect of it moving on the roads which were blocked by the movement of the French units but some of the minor roads were usable and these were used to move the surviving artillery and anti-tank guns. By dawn 132nd Brigade and most of 57th Anti-Tank Regiment and 58th Field Regiment, minus its guns, had made it on to the Bailleul to Poperinghe road and was moving in scattered small groups with the French towards Dunkirk, the brigade ceased to function as such from this point with its battalions making their own way back to the perimeter and being evacuated from Dunkirk. Headquarters 131st Brigade and 1/6th Queens had gone straight for Dunkirk and arrived in the perimeter during the afternoon and were directed to the beach. Between 30th and 31st May The division was scattered along the beach from Dunkirk to Bray Dunes, some in organised units but most in small parties, throughout the day efforts were made to get troops off the beach by small boats but these were far too few in number to make any impact on the numbers arriving. The rate of embarkation improved during the evening as ships began to arrive in numbers at the mole and a substantial number were lifted off that night. Small numbers continued to embark during the following day from the beach but the remainder of the division moved to the mole that evening and were lifted from there.
