British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

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1940 May 24-1940 Jun 14

Chief of Imperial General Staff semi-official file 23: Gen Sir John Greer Dill's papers on the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), including his letters to V Adm Bertram Home Ramsay, Flag Officer Commanding Dover and Adm Sir William Milbourne James, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, 5-14 Jun 1940, thanking them for their contribution in the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, May 1940; typescript war diary listing communications between V Adm Bertram Home Ramsay, Flag Officer Commanding Dover, Brig Nicholson, Commanding Calais, Brig Gen Perceval, War Office, and others, 24-26 May 1940, concerning operations at Calais and Dunkirk; text of statement, [Jun 1940], by Capt Hulls, Gordon Highlanders, on operations between Abbeville and St Valery by 153 Bde, 4-14 Jun 1940; French Army memorandum, 14 Jun 1940, on meeting between Brooke, General Officer Commanding, British Troops in France, French Gen Maxime Weygand, Commander-in-Chief, French Army, and Gen Alphonse Georges, Commander of North East Front, 14 Jun 1940, to discuss possibility of establishing Allied bridgehead in Brittany (additional copy at 4/3).

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