Key Information
Reference code
DAVIDSON, FHN 3/3
Title
Account of 1 Corps, British Expeditionary Force, transfer to France, [1939-1940]
Date(s)
- [1939 - 1940] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file, photographs
Scope and content
Davidson's account of the transfer of 1 Corps, BEF to France via Cherbourg; the 'Phoney War'; the deficiencies of the French 3 Corps in terms of supplies, organisation and morale. With photographs of the visit to 1 Corps by George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland and French Gen Alphonse Georges, Commander in Chief of the French armies in the field. 1 file, photographs