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DUNKIRK CLAIMS
WINDSORA
has
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H.O.
GERBERA
61.
LETTER SENT
WINDSONG
(S)
TELEPHONE: BRIGHTON No 5711/2.
+/S.T.N.6B.
1
OCT1940
30th POST September 1940
ance Company Limited
Gentlemen,
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District Branch,
I have to acknowledge
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receipt of your letter dated 18th
ORTH STREET,
September 1940, enclosing reports on
the Dunkirk Operations insofar as
your "WARRIOR" took part in these
Brighton!
1st
October,
1940.
operations, and to thank you for the
most interesting information which you
have been good enough to supply. It
is anticipated that this report will
be of value in compiling the final
- Small Craft - Yacht -
report which will be drawn up on these
IG".
operations.
your of the 16th instant, I now have
I am, Gentlemen,
L desire for your records of the part
Your obedient Servant,
the B.E.F. from Dunkirk.
(Sgd.) A. P. MEREDITH.
len of 29, Hill Road, Littlehampton,
ehampton.
The following is a
Director of Sea Transport.
r its own power on May 30th, arriving
de until the following morning, when
Messrs. William Douglas & Sons Ltd.,
ave orders to proceed to east of
S.
Late that afternoon instructions
Douglas Wharf,
nte
Putney, S.W.5.
Early on the morning of June 1st
djoining Basin where, with five other
a trawler, to Dunkirk.
W e made
we
.ers had already been given by the Captain
We were on the point of making for the
w
Jy dive bombers, one large salvo just missing
our trawler. We were ordered to cut adrift and make back, it was every man for
himself. Two or three times we were lifted or shot up with the detonations, in
fact, it was marvellous how the boat stuck it.
There were several small and
has
two large transports put down quite close to us. Every moment we thought it
would be our turn for the machine guns which the Huns were using on small craft.
of
Meanwhile, there was wreckage all around us. One of the craft alongside was in
trouble with its engines, and we gave them a hand getting their engines going,
after which we proceeded on our course back to Dover.
Eventually we got
by
across the Goodwins when darkness set in. We made the "Downs" and moored to a
tug until daybreak, finally reaching the east harbour of Dover about 7. a.m. on
as
June 2nd, where we reported our return. After a while a naval crew took over
the yacht and we then made our way back to Littlehampton where we reported.
ther
P.T.O.
after taking on Petrol at Gravesend.
About 10.30 we arrived at has Southend Pier and 29/5
were asked to take the vessel to Dunkirk as there were
not sufficient Naval Ratings available. Provisions for
three days and more petrol were taken aboard, and we were
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