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NOTE TO TABLES 1-3
DISEMBARKATION FIGURES
There is a discrepancy of 397 between the military figure of troops disembarked in
1. U.K. during the period of Operation "Dynamo", 27th May-4th June, 308,491 (c),
and the the figure computed by H.S./T.S.D., 308,888 (f).
War Office figure (A.G. Stats.) 20 May-4 June
336,427 (a)
Subtract figure of pre-" Dynamo" disembarkations
(20-26 May), to equate with naval period
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27,936 (b)
308,491 (c)
H.S./T.S.D. figure 27 May-4 June
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338,226 (d)
Subtract figures for troops disembarked from French
(22,160), Belgian (3,464), Dutch (214), and
Norwegian (3,500) ships which are apparently
not included in the military figure (a)
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29,338 (e)
308,888 (f)
2. H.S./T.S.D. figures (d) (e) are based on check of all ships' reports (British, French,
Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian), but the unduly high percentage of round figures in the reports
leads to the conclusion that some of these figures are approximate. The comparable
figure to (d) in the Despatch of Vice-Admiral Dover, M.011883/40, Appendix III, is
338,682 (g), but it is there noted (p. 55) that the List is not necessarily complete and the
numbers shown against each vessel are often approximate only.
3. The Dover Report, M.011883/40, Appendix IV and V also gives figures based on
the daily disembarkations at ports in the U.K. from 27th May to 5th June as follows :-
Accumulated total excluding ambulance traffic
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309,682 (h)
Subtract troops disembarked on 5th June
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1,096 (i)
308,586 (j)
Add Hospital carriers and ambulance train totals
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6,981 (k)
Add French troops disembarked in U.K. from French
ships
20,525 (2)
336,092
(The disembarkations from Belgian, Dutch and Norwegian vessels are presumed to be
included in (l)).
4. The Admiralty in a message V.C.N.S. 251300B May, 1943, to B.A.D. Washington
for 1st S.L. (War Diary) gave sets of figures as follows :-
V.A. Dover's figures-British troops
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193,568 (n)
Allied troops
123,095 (o)
TOTAL 316,663 (p)
Lord Gort's figures-British troops
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224,585 (q)
Allied troops
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112,546 (2)
337,131 (s)
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