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Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel.
Dutch Skoot H.M.S. AMAZONE - Lieutenant Commander Laurence
French Packet S.S. NEWHAVEN.
Henry Phillips, R.N.
Recommendations.
OFFICER.
Lieutenant Commander Laurence Henry Phillips, R.N.
Commanding Officer of H.M.S. AMAZONE.
Completed 3 trips to Dunkirk beaches in AMAZONE
and 2 in Personnel Vessel the French Packet NEWHAVEN, in which he was embarked as moral stiffener to the
French Master, trouble having been experienced in getting the civilian manned personnel vessels to enter Dunkirk harbour.
In AMAZONE this officer displayed marked initiative and determination under air attack and artillery fire and succeeded in lifting a large number of troops from the beaches. Whilst on board NEWHAVEN that vessel completed 2 trips satisfactorily. When in Dunkirk harbour with no troops in sight on the pier, went ashore and personally conducted a French Colonel and
1,000 of his troops on board.
Recommended for mention.
RATING.
Ordinary Seaman Vincent Wakeham, P/JX.194588, Newfoundland
Rating.
Showed exceptional coolness and good seamanship in handling various abandoned motor boats and the
AMAZONE'S dinghy in the surf. Great persistence and resource. An outstanding rating, whose conduct under fire amounted to gallantry.
Recommended for decoration.
Dutch Skoot H.M.S. BRANDARIS)
W.D. Launch MARLBOROUGH
W.D. Launch WOLF
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Commander Charles Euman, R.N. (Ret.)
Personnel Vessel AUTOCARRIER - Master, C.M. Masters.
Recommendations.
OFFICER.
Commander Charles Euman, R.N. (Ret.). Commanding Officer of
BRENDARIS, MARLBOROUGH, WOLF.
Carried out 3 trips in the BRANDARIS, 5 in the
MARLBOROUGH and WOLF as Commanding Officer, and one round trip in the personnel vessel AUTOCARRIER as moral stiffener to the Master and crew.
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