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Typed War Diary sheets completed by the 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards covering the battalion’s billeting at Chateau du Fay and Fontaine, patrols and exercises, advance into Belgium, retreat from Huldenberg, enemy air activity, the counter-attack at Armentieres, and withdrawal to Dunkirk, and regrouping and training at Louth, Lincolnshire (including photocopies of the pages relating to April 1940 taken from the Public Record Office); together with accounts of, and correspondence relating to the counter attack on the Ypres-Comines Canal (May 1940), notes by Lieutenant Colonel Allan Adair on operations in Flanders (May - June 1940), and completed questionnaires developed by Nigel Nicolson on 3rd Battalion activities with the BEF from Lieutenant Colonel O W D Smith, Allan Adair, and Lieutenant Colonel C Earle. Associated with Grenadier Guards, World War Two (1939-1945). From the Regimental Archive of the Grenadier Guards.

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