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CONFIDENTIAL
Report on Operation "DYNAMO".
Page 8.
Staff Officer, Captain L.V. Morgan, C.B.E., M.V.O., D.S.C.
Augmented by additional officers, including both
Army and Royal Air Force, specially appointed for the
occasion, their task of organising and operating the large
and varied collection of H.M. ships continued without a
pause day and night throughout the 10 days that the Operation
lasted, and I can never testify adequately to the excellence
of their work, upon the efficiency of which successful results
depended.
Finally I would like to pay tribute to the valuable
support and assistance which I received throughout the whole
course of the evacuation from Vice Admiral Sir James
Somerville, K.C.B., D.S.O., who was appointed to H.M.S. LYNX
for special service in connection with the evacuation.
The attributes of this officer for initiative and resource
are well known throughout the Service, but I venture to
express the opinion that never in the course of his long
and distinguished career have they been put to better use
than during the operations for the evacuation of the Allied
Armies from Dunkirk.
17.
RECOMMENDATIONS OF PERSONNEL.
I have already transmitted a brief list of those
recommended for immediate award or decoration (which His
Majesty has been pleased to accept) and I will forward a
further list at a later date when time has permitted a full
examination of all the reports.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
Balaway Vice Admiral.