Supplement 35305 — Gort’s France and Belgium despatch
Supplement 35305 — Gort’s France and Belgium despatch
The London Gazette Supplement 35305: General Viscount Gort’s despatches covering the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, 1939–40. OCR is stored for searching; the public table shows short research extracts and small page previews.
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' SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 OCTOBER, 1941 Carvin, and on the following day isgth Infantry near Maulde on the front of ist Division a Brigade of the same division joined the force. number of enemy had crossed the river dis- On 2ist May I27th Infantry-Brigade rejoined the guised as refugees, but had been detected and 42nd Division and the sector from Millonfosse driven out with the bayonet. The Corps Com- to St. Amand was handed over to the French. manders all felt that they could hot how hold Already on 2oth May, I had ordered Major- on for more than .twenty-four hours. We General Curtis, Commanding 46t… |
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17 OCTOBER, 1941 5921 as it turned out, fatally injured in a motor These moves left only four divisions on the accident returning from the conference which he frontier defences and made'it possible to with- and I had attended at Ypres on the night of draw the headquarters and Corps troops of 2ist May. General Blanchard succeeded him in 3rd Corps for employment on the Canal line command of the French First Group of Armies, where they were badly needed. This was done and presumably succeeded to the function of at 4 p.m. on 23rd May, leaving ist Corps with co-ordination although this was never officially 42nd and is… |
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5922 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 OCTOBER, 1941 2qkh May. Preparations for counter attack and the Admiral du Nord, Admiral Abrial, whose strengthening of canal defences. command included Boulogne, Calais and 40. During 24th May, I had simultaneously Dunkirk. Under his authority the command to prepare for a counter-attack southwards on of military forces in these areas was assumed on the 26th and also to press forward with the 24th May by General de Corps d'Arme'e Fagalde, strengthening of the canal line. commanding the French i6th Corps which up To make the detailed arrangements for the to now had been fi… |