... Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the outbreak of war, when he was placed in command of the B.E.F. He directed the evacuation at Dunkirk until most of the troops had been got away, and then, at the order of the Government, returned to London. He ...

... Military Correspondent L Peking a reason for the publication now of Lord Gort’s longl despatches on the operations in France and Flanders, which at Dunkirk in the virtual destruction of the best trained and equipped fighting unit we have ever sent overseas, it ...

... Stock Exchange in civil life), and a rifleman with D.C.M., none whom were members of the party of 47 whom the Navy managed to evacuate. Seventeen months after the event they amplified accounts they had already given anonymously when the doings of the force ...

... the achievement in giving time for Egypt and upsetting Rashid Ali’s plans was ample preparation for the news of our latest evacuation. It may be, as official spokesmen point out, that the gallant resistance of the defenders of Crete has upset the German ...

... foresaw the future, and it is said that it Was he wiho advised that it would be better for the Greeks to cover a British evacuation and then to make the best possible terms. The King of the Hellenes and General Wilson, however, felt that the British should ...

... Independence, you appreciate why standardisation would be difficult. MR. MALCOLM MACDONALD, who has at last ordered compulsory evacuation of certain children that children suffering or likely to suffer in mind or body from hostile air attacks must leave London ...

... held up the Germans while the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force hurried to a secret rendezvous on the coast and were evacuated. I embarked on a convoy of 11,500 troops, among whom were scores of Dunkirk veterans. In some ways it was like Dunkirk all ...