TNA / ADM 116 4649

TNA ADM 116 4649

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TNA ADM 116 4649

Operation Dynamo reports and recommendations for awards, volume 2 (1940–1942), documenting service during the Dunkirk evacuation and the cases submitted for official recognition.

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Collection reference: ADM 116 4649

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 116/4649. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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131	Log in to enlarge	Page 91. Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel. Commodore Alfred riugh Taylor, O.B.E. (Rear-Admiral Retired). as Dynamo Maintenance Officer from the Economic Commodore Taylor was appointed to Sheerness for duty Division, Admiralty. He built up an organisation Warfare Tuesday 28th May, and prepared a multitude of small from water, and time to time such as rafts, ladders, equipment lifebuoys, demanded for service from on the coast, with special items of craft organised the manning, either from volunteers by men from the Chatham Depot. This Sheerness organisation or acted as a clearing house and despatching point for these vessels, the total number sent out from Sheerness being about 125 by Sunday, June 2nd. Commodore Taylor then proceeded to Ramsgate to help the Naval Officer in Charge, and to assist in the co-operation of the motor boats etc., with the larger vessels. On the last 2 nights of the evacuation, at my request, he personally organised and conducted the operation of the motor boat flotilla from Ramsgate to evacuate French from the St. Malo beach and from the inner Harbour Dunkirk, both of which localities were regarded as positions of honour, being at that time under continuous shell fire. These ventures were eminently successful, and a large number of French troops were dealt with by Commodore Taylor's craft. To these craft fell the honour of being 4th. the last units to leave Dunkirk in the early hours of June Recommended for mention.	Boat Commodore Last May Page

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Page 91.
Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel.
Commodore Alfred riugh Taylor, O.B.E. (Rear-Admiral Retired).
as Dynamo Maintenance Officer from the Economic
Commodore Taylor was appointed to Sheerness for duty
Division, Admiralty. He built up an organisation Warfare
Tuesday 28th May, and prepared a multitude of small from
water, and time to time such as rafts, ladders, equipment lifebuoys,
demanded for service from on the coast, with special items of craft
organised the manning, either from volunteers
by men from the Chatham Depot. This Sheerness organisation or
acted as a clearing house and despatching point for these
vessels, the total number sent out from Sheerness being about
125 by Sunday, June 2nd. Commodore Taylor then proceeded
to Ramsgate to help the Naval Officer in Charge, and to
assist in the co-operation of the motor boats etc., with the
larger vessels. On the last 2 nights of the evacuation, at
my request, he personally organised and conducted the
operation of the motor boat flotilla from Ramsgate to
evacuate French from the St. Malo beach and from the inner
Harbour Dunkirk, both of which localities were regarded as
positions of honour, being at that time under continuous
shell fire. These ventures were eminently successful, and
a large number of French troops were dealt with by Commodore
Taylor's craft. To these craft fell the honour of being
4th. the last units to leave Dunkirk in the early hours of June
Recommended for mention.