... WHY THE B.E.F. WERE DRIVEN OUT OF FLANDERS THE main causes of the Flanders tragedy culminate ing in the epic of Dunkirk were:— Failure Allied support on either Sank; A Weygand plan based on thin air; Lack of liaison; Insufficient equipment and inadequate ...

... strung line of pil boxes to a defensive position so stronf that when the Germans faced part ot it in the later stages of the Flanders campaign last year they never even attacked. GIBRALTAR evacuees now in England are confident that the Rock wil defy any attempts ...

... nothing more formidable than machine guns. Yet British tanks, mounting quite formidable cannon, were ploughing these same Flanders fields in 1918! Within a few days of the attack on Belgium this British force found itself facing substantial portion of ...

... in France and Flanders (1939-40) tells of the heroic work of the 2nd Battalion. The story which is begun below tells of a fortnight during which the Seconds were in almost continuous contact with the enemy. At the end they were evacuated from Bray Dunes ...

... bo subterfuges.” The arguments put forward by Lord Gort for the further prosecution of the war after the experience of the Flanders battle clearly proves,” the paper declares, that bad British generalship led to the defeat of the British. The bulk of the ...