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BRIDGEMAN 2/4
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Texts of telegrams sent between senior command personnel, May 1940
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- [1940] (Creation)
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9pp
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Text of telegrams sent from 11-30 May, 1940, during the course of the Battle of Flanders and the subsequent evacuation from Dunkirk, notably between General Headquarters British Expeditionary Force, the War Office, (Robert) Anthony Eden, AF Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, Gen Sir William Edmund Ironside, Gen Georges, Gen John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Gen Weygrand, Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Gen Sir John Greer Dill, and King George VI. 9pp.
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