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South Quay was by now crowded transport with which ambulances had been and pro Hon-
combatant The personnel who were traffic awaiting control and their shortly apparent after 093
Traffic ive. These control was negligible, attacks continued there move back
bombing ised at dawn. attacks There started was with no THE THE as about troops 1700. object- were
in
a nervous condition. Dove on the Malo river front. had arrived. The troops were at
ordered to take cover the casualties to the wounded small. The only we
once and shelter in the in woods the town until the ships and as far As as a
result of this to action other troops were remarkably the oil tanks. reason
where could personnel estimate suffered badly when being the breeze near freshened of we these rigged up two
In the afternoon the two biggest cranes. One afforded good kites flew
well to 2600 Unfortunately, however, in spite of almost immediately units
kites from the feet top over of the harbour and might have informing the A.A. pro-
tection. and air force personnel the kite was shot down by
small arms
time. We then About 2000 we returned to the South waiting Quay 2
fire. returned to H.Q. and relieved the cypher to officer find for
hospital again no dock labour Cdr Dove organised sort of make
a short ships in the harbour and a personnel ship a party outside. to
As there ships was fast and embark the wounded and also some not traffic
control. the Bombing had now ceased entirely and did recommence
until 6200 next day.
The Hospital ships were made fast abreast and this allowed
water brought a working party of 50 soldiers who unloaded returned water, with et
the in two gallon tins, maps for staff and medicine the She
personnel ship to tie up forward of them. The personnel stores. brought
also then were never seen again. It is presumed they to th
ship. water off the quay, although it was useful for the the
and As a result of this absense of labour it was impossible wounded. Just get
the dark a british destroyer (Wolsey ?) came up between until piers.
before Dove's instructions we signalled her to keep clear we ha th
on Cdr. berth for her. Eventually we told her to tie up alongside to pic
up H.Q. officere onboard the destroyer Cdr. Dove asked Senior give a
two staff who were to embark in the Destroyer. After General ii
found hospital a ships. Lieut. Addis then drove to the Bastion embarking
was list but after calling out some officers names The destroyer being there
staff satisfied that all his staff were onboard. He refused to satisfi
to nominal his presence the nexte he said hour he was Some ready 30 more to proceed. of the general's starf and arri we
on the them in the personnel ship. The work of "Wolf.
left. Within quay-side to find the destroyer had sailed without embarkation them we
had to embark and there was no air activity. At about 0030 H.M.S. to
hound" H.M.S. "Wolfhound" was to provide W/T comminication trans
on smoothly berthed alongside the South Quay and we took the Captain
Cdr.Henderson. the "Gervaise Rentual" could get no reply on her pa
with mitter Dover and the as shore station had broken down. At0130 on Cdr the .Dove's quayside
turned in May a 27th we were awakened by a Frenchman who had fired tha a
for few hours sleep in a trench
rifle at us coming and that it was his "abis". We movements &
At 0530 on in the trench and insisted probably quite correctly,
Cdr. Dove destroyer which threatened to block the fairway. By and
the Germans had were already been up since 0430 controlling the 0730
a French ships except "Gervaise Rentual! had cleared the port
all British numbers of troops and a few ambulances (empty?) were thronging
the quayside. 0830 an intense aerial bombardment started which at
large German reconnaissance patrols were active overhead continued
with never Tuesday. The quay was becoming so dangerous that Cdr Dove
at about more than 20 minutes interval until we left the port
We noticed equipment, the wrecked cars the
0130 on cleared all the troops out of the harbour into the
once again that apart from the acute danger of
of abandoned of transportation and the numerous bomb craters had re-
Quay taining wall was damaged in only one place. At Cdr. Henderson's a V.
hope impossible to use any longer, inspite of the fact that the req
we spent at the top of the bastion to keep in touch with H.M.S.
the morning making a tour of inspection and arranging "Wolt
hound" all communication between the bastion and the signal Engla
station which was lying 18 (approx) miles off the beach to northwar station
By now was severed. All telephonic comminication to off
by "Gervaise any Rentual" was out of order. At 1200 we returned to
the lighthouse route whatsoever was destroyed and the R.T. transmitter the gi