TNA / ADM 116 4649

TNA ADM 116 4649

Collection details

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.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 116 4649

View the archive catalogue entry ↗

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

Showing only pages tagged with the vessel name Reiger. Tags are exact matches from this collection’s OCR tag index. Clear vessel filter ×

Showing only document page 162. Show all matching pages ×

1 matching pages. OCR may contain transcription errors.

List page 1 of 1 Showing document pages 162–162 of this collection

A note about image and OCR quality

Every reasonable effort has been made to present these document images as flat, straight and accurately cropped as possible. Historical records can be difficult to photograph or scan because of tight bindings, deep gutters, page curvature, folds, creases, fragile paper, uneven edges, shadows, glare, skewed pages, fading, stains, tears, attachments and restrictions on how a document may be handled. These conditions can distort parts of an image and consequently affect the OCR transcription.

Considerable post-production work has been undertaken to crop, align, flatten and enhance the images where practicable, but the results represent our best effort rather than exact facsimiles. Text showing through from the reverse of a page, printed backgrounds, stamps, ruled lines, marks and text visible from neighbouring pages may confuse or spoil OCR output. Handwriting is not reliably recognised and, in most places, may be missing, incomplete or incorrectly transcribed. Always check the page image and, where accuracy matters, consult the original record held by the identified archive.

OCR is not a transcription. It is machine-generated text used to create research tags and help locate names and references within the source images; it should not be read as a verified narrative.

Page	Image	OCR text	OCR tags
162	Log in to enlarge	Page 124 Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel. Dutch Skoot H.M.S. PATRIA) W.D. Fast Launch HAIG Lieutenant-Commander N.L. Pisani R.N. (Ret.). Decorated with the D.S.O. for this operation, London Gazette 7th June, 1940. Recommendation. RATING. Leading Seaman Willie Haggar, P/J.95873. R.F.R. Displayed exceptional initiative, leadership and gallantry under fire as coxswain in working an inexperienced crew of Ordinary Seamen, thereby enabling the PATRIA to embark over 1,000 troops off Bray beach. Subsequently in HAIG further large numbers of men from the Malo beaches, Haggar going ashore in a small boat on several occasions taking charge and marshalling the troops. He also worked the A.A. Lewis gun on board with such skill that Messerschmitt attacks were repulsed. Recommended that this remarkable rating should be decorated for gallantry and noted for early advancement to Petty Officer, for which his qualities of leadership fully qualify him. Dutch Skoot H.M.S. REIGER - Lieutenant Alexander Tyson, R.N. Operated from 26th May to the 3rd June. Steering compass was so unreliable as to be given up as hopeless, and in spite of considerable navigational difficulties of the locality, completed 3 trips to Dunkirk and the beaches, a performance above the average for the 40 skoots employed in the operation. Recommendation. OFFICER. Lieutenant Alexander Tyson, R.N. Displayed marked pertinacity throughout the operation and coolness under fire when in the Dunkirk area. Handled about 800 Allied troops. Recommended for mention. Dutch Skoot H.M.S. TWENTE - Lieutenant-Commander Humphrey Gilbert Boys-Smith, R.N.R. Recommendations. OFFICER. Lieutenant-Commander Humphrey Gilbert Boys-Smith, R.N.R. Displayed exceptional initiative and a high order of pertinacity under fire. During 2 days and 3 nights/	Boat Haig London Patria Reiger Twente Alexander Boys-Smith Gilbert Haig Lewis May Page Pisani Smith Tyson

Raw OCR

Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 162.

Page 124
Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel.
Dutch Skoot H.M.S. PATRIA)
W.D. Fast Launch HAIG
Lieutenant-Commander N.L. Pisani R.N. (Ret.).
Decorated with the D.S.O. for this
operation, London Gazette 7th June, 1940.
Recommendation.
RATING.
Leading Seaman Willie Haggar, P/J.95873. R.F.R.
Displayed exceptional initiative, leadership and
gallantry under fire as coxswain in working an
inexperienced crew of Ordinary Seamen, thereby
enabling the PATRIA to embark over 1,000 troops off
Bray beach. Subsequently in HAIG further large
numbers of men from the Malo beaches, Haggar going
ashore in a small boat on several occasions taking
charge and marshalling the troops. He also worked
the A.A. Lewis gun on board with such skill that
Messerschmitt attacks were repulsed.
Recommended that this remarkable rating should be
decorated for gallantry and noted for early advancement
to Petty Officer, for which his qualities of leadership
fully qualify him.
Dutch Skoot H.M.S. REIGER - Lieutenant Alexander Tyson, R.N.
Operated from 26th May to the 3rd June. Steering
compass was so unreliable as to be given up as hopeless,
and in spite of considerable navigational difficulties
of the locality, completed 3 trips to Dunkirk and the
beaches, a performance above the average for the 40
skoots employed in the operation.
Recommendation.
OFFICER.
Lieutenant Alexander Tyson, R.N.
Displayed marked pertinacity throughout the
operation and coolness under fire when in the
Dunkirk area. Handled about 800 Allied troops.
Recommended for mention.
Dutch Skoot H.M.S. TWENTE - Lieutenant-Commander Humphrey Gilbert
Boys-Smith, R.N.R.
Recommendations.
OFFICER.
Lieutenant-Commander Humphrey Gilbert Boys-Smith, R.N.R.
Displayed exceptional initiative and a high
order of pertinacity under fire. During 2 days and
3 nights/