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Supplement 35305 — Gort’s France and Belgium despatch

Supplement 35305 — Gort’s France and Belgium despatch
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Supplement 35305 — Gort’s France and Belgium despatch

The London Gazette Supplement 35305: General Viscount Gort’s despatches covering the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 1939–40. OCR is stored for searching; the public table shows short research extracts and small page previews.

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17 OCTOBER, 1941 ^5901 was provided at these river crossings. The certain French technical troops continued to weather was fine throughout the whole period of work in the sector under the command of the the move. French Commander of the Defensive Sector The first stage was one hundred and of Lille, Colonel (now General de Brigade) twenty miles. An average of five hundred Bertschi. vehicles moved daily over each stage of the route, While defences continued to develop on the maintaining a distance of one hundred yards lines of the original plan, based on the close between each vehicle as a precaution against defenc…