Item LINDSELL 1/4 - War Diary for the Supplies Directorate, General HQ, 17-30 May 1940, during the retreat of the BEF and evacuation from Dunkirk

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LINDSELL 1/4

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War Diary for the Supplies Directorate, General HQ, 17-30 May 1940, during the retreat of the BEF and evacuation from Dunkirk

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  • 1940 May 17 - 1940 May 30 (Creation)

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52pp

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War diary of the Supplies Directorate, General Headquarters during the operations of the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) in France and Belgium, 1940, notably the withdrawal to the French coast and evacuation from Dunkirk, including appendices giving the supply situation at the depots at different dates throughout May; accounts of the shipping and supplies being unloaded and moved forward from Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk; notes on meetings relating to plans for the evacuation of British forces from the above ports, especially the situation as regarding Calais; notes on a conference at the War Office concerning the remobilisation of the Supplies and Transport Directorates at Dover, Kent. 52pp.

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