NAM.2004-09-6-1

Typescript diary of Lt (later Lt Col) Iain Murray's service in France and Belgium as personal assistant to Lt Gen W G Lindsell DSO, OBE, MC, QMG to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from 1 May to 30 May 1940. The diary gives a useful insight into the operation of the High Command of the BEF during the May fighting. It includes details of staff meetings with senior BEF and French officers at various locations, descriptions of command posts, accounts of German air-raids and the movement of refugees, as well as the retreat of Allied forces to Dunkirk and the subsequent evacuation. Murray himself was taken off the beaches by a trawler on the morning of 30 May 1940. Associated with World War Two, North Western Europe (1939-1943).

Dunkirk, Evacuation, 1940 (World War Two, North West Europe 1939-1940)