TNA ADM 199 792

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TNA ADM 199 792

Admiralty records concerning Operation Dynamo and the evacuation of troops from Dunkirk, covering 1940–1941.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 199 792

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 199/792. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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287	Log in to enlarge	318 315 - 10 is 30/5 So for as was possible I kept ships off all beaches, but in doing DO I was badly hampered by the lack of means of gotting about quickly. Often when I was off La Penne ships would arrive and stop off the other two beaches, send in their boats and start loading, by then perhaps some off La Panno would leave and a redistribution might be desivable, but it WAS impracticable once ships had their boats may. At 1900 small numbers of aircraft made attacks on I.O. Panne and ships off the beaches and about this time a puffer, the "Tiny," loaded with /Shoot. ammunition arrived. She was told to beach herself at In Fanno, the tide being then high; this she did and was cleared as the tide vont out, though I believe 8. good deal of her cargo Was finally dumped in the 502. At 2000 I started inshore again in "WORCESTER'S" whaler on my third attempt to see Lord Gort, There was a slight swell and I got wet to the waist landing. I took in with me my Flag Licutenant and a small party of signalmen to open visual communications with G.H.Q. I was met on the beach by Tennant and General Lees and werrt with them to G.H.Q. which was established in the last villa but one on the south edge of La Panne. This was a pretentions house with a largish dining-room with French windows opening direct on to S road ruming along the top of the sandy slope from the beach, I found Lord Gort and his staff about to have dinner and he insisted on my joining thom. No was charming and seemed very checrful and 1111- perturbed and glad to see me. He had been told that a Rear Admirel was being sent to take charge of the embarkation and made TO feel that that simple fact should have E. great effect. I must confess I did not feel so confident of what 10 was possible for me to do. However, we aid not really disouss matters till after dinner. I shall not easily forget that meal. For one thing my brousors and seat were very wet and it seemed so strange to be sitting there sharing the Commander-in-Ohief's last bottle of champagne and looking out BOROSS the beach to the sea, There were eight 02 nine of us including Tonnant and myself. I forget what we ate except that the final dish WOB fruit salad from a tin and I felt that my extra mouth was robbing the others of	Aid Deal Tiny Gort Last Lees May Tennant

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Unformatted machine-generated OCR for document page 287.

318
315
- 10 is
30/5
So for as was possible I kept ships off all beaches, but in doing DO I
was badly hampered by the lack of means of gotting about quickly. Often
when I was off La Penne ships would arrive and stop off the other two
beaches, send in their boats and start loading, by then perhaps some off
La Panno would leave and a redistribution might be desivable, but it WAS
impracticable once ships had their boats may.
At 1900 small numbers of aircraft made attacks on I.O. Panne and ships
off the beaches and about this time a puffer, the "Tiny," loaded with
/Shoot.
ammunition arrived. She was told to beach herself at In Fanno, the
tide being then high; this she did and was cleared as the tide vont out,
though I believe 8. good deal of her cargo Was finally dumped in the 502.
At 2000 I started inshore again in "WORCESTER'S" whaler on my third
attempt to see Lord Gort, There was a slight swell and I got wet to the
waist landing. I took in with me my Flag Licutenant and a small party
of signalmen to open visual communications with G.H.Q.
I was met on the beach by Tennant and General Lees and werrt with
them to G.H.Q. which was established in the last villa but one on the south
edge of La Panne. This was a pretentions house with a largish dining-room
with French windows opening direct on to S road ruming along the top of
the sandy slope from the beach,
I found Lord Gort and his staff about to have dinner and he insisted
on my joining thom. No was charming and seemed very checrful and 1111-
perturbed and glad to see me. He had been told that a Rear Admirel was
being sent to take charge of the embarkation and made TO feel that that
simple fact should have E. great effect. I must confess I did not feel so
confident of what 10 was possible for me to do. However, we aid not really
disouss matters till after dinner.
I shall not easily forget that meal. For one thing my brousors and
seat were very wet and it seemed so strange to be sitting there sharing
the Commander-in-Ohief's last bottle of champagne and looking out BOROSS
the beach to the sea, There were eight 02 nine of us including Tonnant
and myself. I forget what we ate except that the final dish WOB fruit
salad from a tin and I felt that my extra mouth was robbing the others of