Supplement 35305 — Gort’s France and Belgium despatch
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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5930 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 OCTOBER, 1941 On the evening of 2gth May, therefore, the -I judged that it would be imprudent to con- organisation of the perimeter was complete, and tinue to maintain our position on the perimeter Sir Ronald Adam's task was successfully outside the permanent defences of Dunkirk accomplished. He himself embarked that night. for more than twenty-four hours longer, and I By 3oth May, there remained in the area, at therefore decided to continue the evacuation an estimate, 80,000 British troops for evacuation by withdrawing 2nd Corps on the night of and I had now to complete… |