NAM.1992-10-110-2

One of two numberplates, 1940. Carried on the car of the commanding officer, Lt Col B G Horrocks, 2nd Bn Middlesex Regiment, throughout the operation in France and Belgium, 10 May to 31 May 1940. The driver of the car, L/Cpl W Snell, removed the plates when the car was immobilised at La Panne, 1145hrs, 31 May 1940, during the retreat; the plates were carried in the pack of Snell who spent three hours in the English Channel when waiting to be evacuated from Dunkirk.

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