... relatives, and homes, driven away by a common enemy. They had five days at sea aboard little trawler and were delayed two days at Dunkirk, where they suffered bombardment. Some of them would serve in the Army and had only left because they were urged to do so ...

... some French divisions This group of three armies was commanded by General Blanchard WITHOUT WARNING - It was provisioned via Dunkirk The British and the French armies defended this port in the south and in the Avest the Belgian army in the north “The Belgian ...

... Aire is a few miles from St Omer on the flank of the German motorised troops which attacked Calais and attempted to approach Dunkirk progress towards south-west in this region could not fail to produce a repercussion on the German push towards coast Calais ...

... his Army whose resistance has ceased are the British Expeditionary Force and some French divisions The defection exposes Dunkirk from which port the armies are provisioned to attack from the North The reasons for this amazing defection remain inscrutable ...