Supplement 38017 — Dunkirk evacuation despatch
Supplement 38017 — Dunkirk evacuation despatch
The London Gazette Supplement 38017: Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay’s despatch on the evacuation of the Allied armies from Dunkirk and neighbouring beaches. OCR is stored for searching; the public table shows short research extracts and small page previews.
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17 JULY, 1947 3307 would attempt to beach ship to form a lee to the beach between Bray and one mile East of try to improve conditions. La Panne and also advancing the commence- Simultaneously with this bad news the Vice- ment of the operation by one hour. The risk Admiral received a signal from S.N.O. Dunkirk of this change of plan was obvious as the boat to the effect that Dunkirk was being continu- tows were not in communication with the Vice ously and heavily bombarded and that the Admiral, and reliance had to be placed on the enemy artillery were gradually finding the range Minesweepers to inform and see that… |