while many of the boats that came to their rescue were sunk, with heavy loss of life. Ten days later the German army marched through Paris, but the evacuation from Dunkirk has since become a ...

Unique and historically significant films shot 75 years ago, during the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk in 1940 ... one of hundreds of naval vessels, merchant ships and small boats that took ...

Twelve people share their memories of the evacuation of Dunkirk, described by one as ... who helped co-ordinate the requisition of civilian boats, Charles Lightoller, who sped across the Channel ...

That was the second day of the Dunkirk evacuation, and just hours after Churchill ... in which people manning the flotilla boats stand like model figurines against fragments of Nimrod from Elgar ...

A new short film tells the story of Poole’s vital role in the miracle of the Dunkirk evacuation 85 years ago ... story of the flotilla of ‘little ships’ – fishing boats, pleasure craft ...

A Suffolk man needs to raise £35,000 to take a near 100-year-old steam tug back to Dunkirk ... to take the boat on a return trip to the port city for the 85th anniversary of the evacuation ...

the role of the 'skoots', the 'little ships' that set out from Poole and the evacuation of the 2nd Battalion Dorset Regiment from Dunkirk. Martha Earley, creative engagement manager at Lighthouse ...

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 ... and transports and ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...