TNA ADM 199 790

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TNA ADM 199 790

Admiralty records concerning Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, dating from 1940.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 199 790

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/790. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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470	Log in to enlarge	21 21 19 FICER-TROLLA WE Lieut. H.R.Wykeham-Nartin, R.N. ( 1st. Lieut. 'Alice') MADate 1940 05 31 29/5/40 OUTHRMPTO F.O.I.C., Southampton, Report Dynamo Force 28/5/40 (Dutch vessels 'Alice', 'Caap Falga', (store ships) and'Able Tasman' (aminition ship). Proceeded from Southampton 26/5/40 and thence received instructions at Dover to proceed to La Panne and beach these ships to facilitate unloading cargo. This operation was carried out at 0800 28/5/40 by 'Alice' and 'Caap Falga', the former having rescued aSgt. Pilot who had descended from a disabled Spitfire by parachute, he was afterwards transferred to 'Able Tasman'. Com. Crick landed to report to G.H.O. He returned at 0900 with 'Able Tasman (Lt. Com. Crick) arrived earlier at 0600 when It. orders to refloat 'Alice' and "Caap Falga' and send then to Beary Beaches where provisions were required and certain Army units were to be evacuated. ded Falga Lt, Sclater to R.N. (Capt. of'Alice) and Lt. Beale from R.N. G.H.O. (Capt. and of request *Caap that boats acertain definite requirements 'Alice'and'Caap Falga' at Bray Beach being inadvisable might be to sent beach to their ships again owing to the appares Meanwhile ent existance of enemy aircraft there. attacks were made on these ships and the four bomb and machine-gun after which Major P.de Havilland soldiers, arrived ashore, on board 'Alice' with four and get in with the instructions to the try situation to the Genermans were his communications Dunkirke having and, that forces at Bray were with a destroyer immediately to report been cut. He stated that Beaches were advancing from on La Panne and that provisions evacuation no longer required falling or bach possible to land as complete .00 He was Lt. reported anticipated that Lt. Sclater had been killed and had near been him taken and to that the Military Hospital had been Beale wounded in the leg The See/orer.	Alice Major Beale Crick De Dover

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21
21
19
FICER-TROLLA
WE
Lieut. H.R.Wykeham-Nartin, R.N.
( 1st. Lieut. 'Alice')
MADate 1940
05
31
29/5/40
OUTHRMPTO
F.O.I.C., Southampton,
Report
Dynamo Force 28/5/40 (Dutch vessels 'Alice', 'Caap Falga',
(store ships) and'Able Tasman' (aminition ship).
Proceeded from Southampton 26/5/40 and thence received instruct-
ions at Dover to proceed to La Panne and beach these ships to
facilitate unloading cargo. This operation was carried out at
0800 28/5/40 by 'Alice' and 'Caap Falga', the former having
rescued aSgt. Pilot who had descended from a disabled Spitfire
by parachute, he was afterwards transferred to 'Able Tasman'.
Com. Crick landed to report to G.H.O. He returned at 0900 with
'Able Tasman (Lt. Com. Crick) arrived earlier at 0600 when It.
orders to refloat 'Alice' and "Caap Falga' and send then to Beary
Beaches where provisions were required and certain Army units
were to be evacuated.
ded Falga Lt, Sclater to R.N. (Capt. of'Alice) and Lt. Beale from R.N. G.H.O. (Capt. and of request *Caap
that boats acertain definite requirements 'Alice'and'Caap Falga' at Bray Beach
being inadvisable might be to sent beach to their ships again owing to the appares
Meanwhile ent existance of enemy aircraft there. attacks were made on these
ships and the four bomb and machine-gun after which Major P.de Havilland soldiers,
arrived ashore, on board 'Alice' with four and get in
with the instructions to the try situation to the
Genermans were his communications Dunkirke having and, that forces at Bray were
with a destroyer immediately to report been cut. He stated that
Beaches were advancing from on La Panne and that provisions evacuation
no longer required falling or bach possible to land as complete
.00
He was Lt. reported anticipated that Lt. Sclater had been killed and had near been him taken and to that the
Military Hospital had been
Beale
wounded
in
the
leg
The
See/orer.