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The owner of a steam tugboat which participated in the pivotal Dunkirk evacuation says the vessel is in "desperate need of ...
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Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940, have been discovered at The University of Manchester Library. The videos can ...
Royal Navy veteran and Poole Maritime Trust trustee, Michael ‘Jack’ Hawkins BEM, said: "Poole and the people of Poole played a significant role in the evacuation of France beginning on 26 May 1940 and ...
Listen to eight survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation recount their stories in this audio gallery. In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF ...
They will be escorted by a Royal Navy guard of honour. In doing so, they will recreate the journey that saw 338,000 ...
A new exhibition is set to shed light on Poole's role in the Dunkirk evacuation. The exhibition, titled 'Poole at Dunkirk 1940', is organised by the Poole Maritime Trust and will be displayed at ...
A Suffolk man has been restoring the vessel Challenge and is appealing for £35,000 to take the near 100-year-old steam tug back to Dunkirk ...
Grehan, who has written extensively on British military history, and was an editor of The BEF in France 1939-1940: Manning the Front through to the Dunkirk Evacuation (2014), gives us a very detailed ...