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THE WAR OFFICE CASUALTY BRANCH,
BLUE COAT SCHOOL,
CHURCH ROAD,
WAVERTREE,
LIVERPOOL, 15.
10ᵗʰ. January, 1941.
Dear Moore,
branch, quarter. but I shall be very grateful if you will place it in the your
I am afraid the following enquiry has no connexion with
and I I have been transferred from Sea Transport to R. Casualties right
been making out a case for a formal presumption of death of men who of
find that one of the problems facing my new branch is that
in missing since the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force, have
June, 1940.
sunk before they reached the United Kingdom, but, in the absence were
As you know, a large number embarked in ships which
rence)
to any reports on the circumstances of these sinkings, we find it of
ve
to assess the French the coast. possibility of survivors having been picked up and difficult conveyed
e
Would it be possible to give us a list of the
en
were were employed in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary ships Force which and
and
or boats distance from shore, and (if at sea) whether other sinking,
approximate sunk after embarking troops, with the date and time of
little probably the outstanding case in point, and if it is likely 1940, to is a
"Lancastria", which left St. Nazaire on the 17th June, resouss?
were in their vicinity and may have effected ships The
if time to collect details of all such cases it would be helpful take
we could have the "Lancastria" particulars in advance.
Yours Sincerely.
Ha, Dawkens
A.L. Moore, Esq.,
Sea Transport Division,
B:
Ministry of Shipping,
Berkeley Square House,
Berkeley Square,
London, W.1.
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