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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17 OCTOBER, 1941 5903 the weight of modern aircraft, has made it neces- requisite selective censorship on the abnormally sary to construct concrete runways, often of large number of letters now despatched daily. considerable extent, on the principal aero- Extremely useful reports on the outlook of the dromes in use. A number of special units of British Expeditionary Force as a whole and on the Royal Engineers had consequently to be its relations with the local French inhabitants raised, and a large amount of plant, grass seed are produced periodically. These are based and materials had to be provided. largely on… |
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5920 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 17 OCTOBER, 1941 port could not be worked for military require- execution has hope of restoring the situation. ments at short notice. A certain amount of Weygand reports French VII Army is advanc- rations and small arms ammunition was sent ing successfully and has captured Peronne, by air up to 23rd May, but from then onwards Albert and Amiens. While realising fully it became impossible for aircraft to land. On dangers and difficulties of your position which 23rd May therefore, on the advice of the Q.M.G., has been explained to Weygand it is essential I decided to place the… |