... Imperial General Staff—the youngest soldier to hold the post in modern times—and a member of the Armv Council . DUNKIKK EVACUATION On the outbreak of war in September 1939 Viscount Gort was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Field Forces , and ...

... first made . Many of these squadrons he states , were still suffering from the effects of . the fighting in Holland and Flanders , at Dunkirk , and during the subsequent operations in France . Lord Dowding was apprehensive about the wastage of Hurricanes ...

... is severely taken to . task for her policy of establishing bases wherever it suits her . Thus , it is suggested that the evacuation . of the , British naval base from Alexandria merely means its transfer' to Crete ,, with another one at Cvnviis The aims ...