TNA ADM 199 790

Collection details

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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617	Log in to enlarge	160 155 were lost before I could reach them. I abandoned my ch when a motor laurch arrived to take off the aining survivors, the number being, as far as I could lge, about five. Five men managed to swime to my skip. In addition to the work reported on above, Eltin, in capacity as cook on board this ship, had hot the d food supplied to all 97 men on board within a if hour of my leaving the scene of the wreck. The cooking Engils, etc. on board normally provide for six men d one officer. He had also arranged for day clothes and ankets to be issued to all twenty five survivate In view of Elton's fearlessness and the able manner which he assisted in rescuing twenty Maral officers d men regardless of his own suft safety, I submit that name he considered for an award. I am, yours obsediently, H.J. Barge. (lub-lt., RNVR.) Commanding	Barge Cook Day Elton

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160
155
were lost before I could reach them. I abandoned my
ch when a motor laurch arrived to take off the
aining survivors, the number being, as far as I could
lge, about five. Five men managed to swime to my skip.
In addition to the work reported on above, Eltin, in
capacity as cook on board this ship, had hot the
d food supplied to all 97 men on board within a
if hour of my leaving the scene of the wreck. The cooking
Engils, etc. on board normally provide for six men
d one officer. He had also arranged for day clothes and
ankets to be issued to all twenty five survivate
In view of Elton's fearlessness and the able manner
which he assisted in rescuing twenty Maral officers
d men regardless of his own suft safety, I submit that
name he considered for an award.
I am, yours obsediently,
H.J. Barge. (lub-lt., RNVR.)
Commanding