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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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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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of the Admiralty C.W. (Honours to & Awards Committee) expression of their warm appreciation of the arduous and-vital
19th August 1940.
services undertaken in this War, at his own request, by your late husband, Captain the Honourable Lionel
Sir,
Oliver Lambart, D.S.O., Royal Navy; and more especial
I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the of of the undaunted gallantry
Admiralty to acquaint you for the information of the
H.M.S.
GRIVE, in
Army Council that in connection with the Dunkirk or thought of self, he
Evacuation to the the name under of fire from the Beaches,
Private George William Crowthers HAVANT,
Hart6th Field Ambulance B.Co.
of fourteen 7354480 hundred of his countrymen.
was recommended to the Admiralty for the award of the am,
Distinguished Service Medal. Your obedient Servant,
My Lords while concurring in the recommendation feel that the award of the Military Medal would be more appropriate and would be glad if the Army Council would.
take the necessary action.
I am, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
EP Secretary of State,
War Office,
S.W.1.
Grive George Lambart

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of the Admiralty C.W. (Honours to & Awards Committee) expression
of their warm appreciation of the arduous and-vital
19th August 1940.
services undertaken in this War, at his own request,
by your late husband, Captain the Honourable Lionel
Sir,
Oliver Lambart, D.S.O., Royal Navy; and more especial
I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the of
of
the
undaunted
gallantry
Admiralty to acquaint you for the information of the
H.M.S.
GRIVE,
in
Army Council that in connection with the Dunkirk
or
thought
of
self,
he
Evacuation to the the name under of fire from the Beaches,
Private George William Crowthers HAVANT,
Hart6th Field Ambulance B.Co.
of fourteen 7354480 hundred of his countrymen.
was recommended to the Admiralty for the award of the
am,
Distinguished Service Medal. Your obedient Servant,
My Lords while concurring in the recommendation
feel that the award of the Military Medal would be more
appropriate and would be glad if the Army Council would.
take the necessary action.
I am, Sir,
Your Obedient Servant,
EP Secretary of State,
War Office,
S.W.1.