... buildings for defence, trench ing, road-block work, simplified signals and communication, supply in food and ammunition, and evacuation of casualties. Quick assembly of units, all living at home, is difficult, but important. Various rifles are in use from ...

... Christmas, 1939, was a pretty dreary business. Our Expeditionary Force, hurriedly dispatched to France, was bogged in the mud of Flanders, occupying ill-prepared positions with nearly 150 miles of Belgium lying between its front line and the enemy, none knowing ...

... Ministerial opposition. His Desire to Visit the Front T n the last testing days of the rearguard action which culminated in the evacuation from Dunkirk the King begged that he might be allowed to visit the British Army in the field. He felt that in some degree ...