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Account of 'G' section
Commodore Hallett explained the following organisal
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his officers before landing
The soldiers were on the whole easy to control we
had been prepared to find a very bad situation
He was to be afloat approximately in that
with French and English fighting among Themselves
section of the beach Signals were decided
There was nothing like that at all.
as to how he would call us up and has
Any organisation for forming groups for the next
communicate with him.
boat was constantly ruined by streams of
He informed us that we were to be the
straggless coming down to the waters edge.
judges of when to evacuate the nowal part
At that time only junior army officers were present
that if one party beach had to leave to community
They had little or no control over the men
along the whole, so all would have the
Our orders and the orders given by the naval
ratings about boats were ip alryed implicitly;
The section heirtenants decided that as the
orders about forming groups and quars for the
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boats were very much more difficult to enforce
were so very small, that all four section
- duefly due g think - that stragglus were
remain close together in case there shall
continually arriving and forming batches out of
trouble with the soldiers over boats or
their turn.
the food and water bottles of the sailous
May
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The morale of the soldiers was very good. They
two
3.
We landed at approximately 2330 in
had experienced bitter disappointments in that
The Admiral and the Commodore decided to
some of them had been waiting as long as two
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until daylight in the destroyer from which
days to be evacuated, and there had aty been
only a few boat loads at very long intervals
disembarked.
Considerable discontent was felt against the French
sections (each covering a frontage of approximal
On landing we took up our positions
- not only as to their fighting ability which
the British addiess described most fluently - but
form hundred yards.
as they were mingling with our soldiers walting
of
When we landed there were no signs within
for evacuation
4.
A few wholesome lies to the French soldiers as to
boats ashore or of any solders
the position of their own ships soon cleared
minutes of landing, approximately 5,000 and
the area. They formed to the Eastward of
left their cover in the sand dunes
our sections but between ABCD sections and
approached the boats
ourselves. We discovered that a headquarters was established
there