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by Sean Longden


  Notes

  See Bibliography: unpublished sources for an explanation of the National Archives abbreviations used below.

  Prologue

  1 Nigel Nicolson, Alex: The Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

  Introduction: Victory or Defeat?

  1 Frederick Foster. Imperial War Museum 01/4/1

  Chapter 1: Missing the Boat

  1 Major R.L. Barclay. Imperial War Museum pp/mcr/373

  2 National Archives CAB106/260

  3 National Archives WO32/4610

  4 National Archives CAB106/260

  5 National Archives WOl67/762

  6 Major W.W. Wagstaff. Imperial War Museum 93/11/1. (Walton Wynter Wagstaff adopted the name Peter to avoid being known as Walt or Waldo.)

  7 National Archives CAB106/248

  8 National Archives CAB106/292

  9 National Archives CAB106/292

  10 Major W.W. Wagstaff. Imperial War Museum 93/11/1

  11 National Archives WO197/99

  12 National Archives CAB106/248

  13 National Archives WO167/807

  14 L.B. Shorrock. Imperial War Museum 80/12/1

  Chapter 2: The Round Up

  1 John Lawrence, A POW’s Story, Woodfield Publishing, 1991

  2 Captain Munby. Imperial War Museum 87/25/1

  3 Sergeant Stephen Houthakker. Imperial War Museum 98/5/1

  4 National Archives WO167/804

  5 National Archives WO167/804

  6 National Archives WO167/804

  7 National Archives WO167/804

  8 National Archives WO167/804

  9 National Archives WO167/804

  10 National Archives TS26/65b

  11 National Archives TS26/205

  12 National Archives TS26/400

  13 National Archives TS26/224

  Chapter 3: The Fight Goes On

  1 National Archives WO167/710

  2 National Archives WO167/710

  3 National Archives WO167/818

  4 National Archives WO167/455

  5 National Archives WO167/710

  6 Captain Peter Royle. Imperial War Museum 99/72/1

  7 National Archives WO167/455

  8 Captain Peter Royle. Imperial War Museum 99/72/1

  9 National Archives WOl67/455

  10 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  11 National Archives WO167/818

  12 National Archives WO167/818

  13 National Archives WO167/455

  14 National Archives WO167/704

  15 National Archives WO167/455

  16 National Archives WO167/455

  17 National Archives WO167/455

  18 National Archives WO167/473

  19 Captain Peter Royle. Imperial War Museum 99/72/1

  20 National Archives WO167/705

  21 National Archives WO167/705

  Chapter 4: The Death of a Division

  1 H. Watt. Imperial War Museum 03/10/01

  2 H. Watt. Imperial War Museum 03/10/01

  3 H. Watt. Imperial War Museum 03/10/01

  4 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  5 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  Chapter 5: The Wounded

  1 National Archives WO32/10746

  2 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  3 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  4 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  5 L.B. Shorrock. Imperial War Museum 80/2/1

  6 L.B. Shorrock. Imperial War Museum 80/2/1

  7 L.B. Shorrock. Imperial War Museum 80/2/1

  8 W. Simpson. Imperial War Museum 96/41/1

  9 W. Simpson. Imperial War Museum 96/41/1

  10 W. Simpson. Imperial War Museum 96/41/1

  11 Major W.W. Wagstaff. Imperial War Museum 93/11/1

  12 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  13 National Archives FO916/2591

  14 National Archives FO916/133

  15 National Archives WO309/857

  16 National Archives TS26/222

  17 National Archives TS26/222

  18 National Archives TS26/223

  19 W. Simpson. Imperial War Museum 96/41/1

  Chapter 6: The First Men Home

  * In his published memoirs Fred Goddard stated that he was evacuated from Brest, from where the organized elements of his regiment were indeed rescued. However, the author believes Goddard was actually evacuated from St Nazaire since his account includes vivid recollections of German aerial activity and the bombing of ships in the harbour. Records show that no Allied ships were lost to bombing at Brest.

  1 J.F. Sweeney. Imperial War Museum 85/18/1

  2 Don Clark, Cede Nullis: A Personal History of the 1940 Normandy Campaign, Pentland Press, 2000

  3 National Archives WO167/818

  4 National Archives WO167/473

  5 Fred Goddard, Battlefields of Life, Finial Publishing, 2004

  6 V. Tatton. Imperial War Museum 01/57/1

  7 S.D. Coates. Imperial War Museum 06/42/1

  8 S.D. Coates. Imperial War Museum 06/42/1

  9 Sergeant Wally Hewitt. Imperial War Museum 67/378/1

  10 Corporal Charles Raybould. Imperial War Museum 75/12/1

  11 Corporal Charles Raybould. Imperial War Museum 75/12/1

  12 J.F. Sweeney. Imperial War Museum 85/18/1

  13 J.F. Sweeney. Imperial War Museum 85/18/1

  14 Corporal Charles Raybould. Imperial War Museum 75/12/1

  15 J.F. Sweeney. Imperial War Museum 85/18/1

  16 J.F. Sweeney. Imperial War Museum 85/18/1

  Chapter 7: The Long Way Home

  * More than sixty years later both these newspapers did get such stories into print when they published features on the author’s book Hitler’s British Slaves: Allied POWs in Germany, 1939–45.

  1 National Archives FO371/24507

  2 National Archives FO371/24507

  3 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  4 Major G.S. Lowden. Imperial War Museum 80/6/1

  5 Major G.S. Lowden. Imperial War Museum 80/6/1

  6 D.N. Peterson. Imperial War Museum 90/4/1

  7 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  8 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  9 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  10 National Archives FO371/24326

  11 National Archives FO371/31908

  12 National Archives FO371/24507

  13 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  14 National Archives FO371/24326

  15 National Archives WO222/16

  16 National Archives FO371/24507

  17 National Archives FO371/24507

  18 National Archives FO371/24507

  19 National Archives FO371/24507

  20 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  21 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  22 National Archives FO371/31908

  23 National Archives WO222/245

  24 National Archives FO916/47

  25 National Archives FO916/48

  26 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  27 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  28 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  29 National Archives FO916/540

  30 Geoff Griffin. Imperial War Museum 92/10/1

  31 National Archives FO916/539

  32 National Archives WO32/10757

  33 National Archives WO32/10757

  34 National Archives WO32/10757

  Chapter 8: The Journey East

  1 National Archives TS26/207

  2 National Archives TS26/204 – United Nations War Crimes Commission

  3 National Archives WO32/18489

  4 National Archives TS26/214

  5 National Archives FO916/2591

  6 National Archives FO916/2591
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br />   7 H. Watt. Imperial War Museum 03/10/01

  8 National Archives TS26/211

  9 National Archives TS26/207

  10 R.P. Evans. Imperial War Museum 90/18/1

  11 R.P. Evans. Imperial War Museum 90/18/1

  12 National Archives WO32/18489

  13 W. Bampton. Imperial War Museum 94/49/1

  14 W. Bampton. Imperial War Museum 94/49/1

  15 Sergeant H.S. Houthakker. Imperial War Museum 98/5/1

  16 Sergeant H.S. Houthakker. Imperial War Museum 98/5/1

  17 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  18 National Archives TS26/207

  19 National Archives TS26/211

  20 W. Kite. Imperial War Museum 94/26/1

  21 National Archives TS26/65A

  22 National Archives TS26/207

  23 National Archives TS26/221

  24 R.A. Wilson. Imperial War Museum 83/41/1

  25 John Forbes Christie. Imperial War Museum 88/47/1

  26 W. Bampton. Imperial War Museum 94/49/1

  Chapter 9: The Journey Continues

  1 National Archives CAB106/260

  2 W. Bampton. Imperial War Museum 94/49/1

  3 Fred Kennington, No Cheese After Dinner, privately published, 2004

  4 National Archives TS26/207

  5 National Archives TS26/207

  6 Tommy Arnott, A Long Walk to the Garden, privately published, 2005

  7 L.B. Shorrock. Imperial War Museum 80/2/1

  8 W. Bampton. Imperial War Museum 94/49/1

  9 L.B. Shorrock. Imperial War Museum 80/2/1

  10 Ronald Holme, Adventures of a Brown Job, Imperial War Museum 19/82/1

  11 Tommy Arnott, A Long Walk to the Garden, privately published, 2005

  Chapter 10: The First Year

  1 E. Vernon Mathias. Imperial War Museum 85/8/1

  2 National Archives WO32/18489

  3 Sergeant H.S. Houthakker. Imperial War Museum 98/5/1

  4 E. Vernon Mathias. Imperial War Museum 85/8/1

  5 Major W.W. Wagstaff. Imperial War Museum 93/11/1

  6 E. Vernon Mathias. Imperial War Museum 85/8/1

  7 Sergeant H.S. Houthakker. Imperial War Museum 98/5/1

  8 Fred Kennington, No Cheese After Dinner, privately published, 2004

  9 R.P. Evans. Imperial War Museum 90/18/1

  10 National Archives CAB106/214

  11 Tommy Arnott, A Long Walk to the Garden, privately published, 2005

  12 National Archives FO916/133

  13 National Archives FO916/2574

  14 National Archives FO371/2607

  Chapter 11: Five Years

  1 National Archives WO32/10757

  2 National Archives WO311/146

  3 National Archives FO371/29607

  4 National Archives FO371/29607

  5 National Archives WO32/10746

  6 National Archives WO32/10757

  7 National Archives WO32/10757

  Chapter 12: Going Home

  1 National Archives WO32/10757

  2 National Archives WO32/10757

  3 National Archives WO32/10757

  4 National Archives WO32/10757

  5 National Archives WO32/10757

  6 National Archives WO32/10757

  7 National Archives WO32/10757

  8 National Archives WO32/10757

  9 National Archives WO32/10757

  10 National Archives TS26/63

  11 National Archives TS26/63

  Bibliography

  Published sources

  Leslie Aitken, Massacre on the Road to Dunkirk, William Kimber, 1977

  Anon, The Diary of a Staff Officer, Methuen, 1941

  Anon, Infantry Officer, Batsford Books, 1943

  Tommy Arnott, A Long Walk to the Garden, privately published, 2005

  W.H. Aston, Nor Iron Bars a Cage, Macmillan, 1946

  Earl of Cardigan, I Walked Alone, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952

  Field Marshal Lord Carver, Britain’s Army in the Twentieth Century, Macmillan, 1998

  John Castle, The Password is Courage, Souvenir Press, 1954

  Don Clarke, Cede Nullis: a Personal History of the 1940 Normandy Campaign, Pentland Press, 2000

  Richard Collier, The Sands of Dunkirk, William Collins, 1961

  Saul David, Churchill’s Sacrifice of the Highland Division, France 1940, Brassey, 1994

  John Elwyn, At the Fifth Attempt, Leo Cooper, 1987

  C. Denis Freeman and Douglas Cooper, The Road to Bordeaux, Cresset Press, 1942

  Fred Goddard, Battlefields of Life, Finial Publishing, 2004

  Alistair Home, To Lose a Battle, Macmillan, 1969

  Nicholas Harman, Dunkirk, the Necessary Myth, Hodder & Stoughton, 1980

  Gordon Instone, MM, Freedom the Spur, Burke Publishing Company, 1973

  Fred Kennington, No Cheese After Dinner, privately published, 2004

  Sam Kyd, For You the War is Over, Bachman & Turner, 1973

  John Lawrence, A POW’s Story, Woodfield Publishing, 1991

  Walter Lord, The Miracle of Dunkirk, Viking Press, 1982

  Mac MacIntosh, The Bolo Boys, Victoria Press, 1989

  William Moore, The Long Way Round, Secker & Warburg, 1986

  Airey Neave, The Flames of Calais, Hodder & Stoughton, 1972

  Nigel Nicolson, Alex: the Life of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

  Keith Panter Brick, Years Not Wasted, The Book Guild, 1999

  Anthony Rhodes, Sword of Bone, Faber & Faber, 1942

  David Rolf, Prisoners of the Reich, Leo Cooper, 1988

  Warren Tute, Escape Route Green, J.M. Dent, 1971

  Adrian Vincent, The Long Road, Allen & Unwin, 1956

  Adrian Weale, Renegades: Hitler’s Englishmen, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994

  Unpublished sources

  National Archives

  CAB21/513

  Cabinet Committee on Army Recruiting

  CAB21/515

  Relations between Germany and UK, September 1938 to August 1939

  CAB21/516

  Mobilization of the Territorial Army

  CAB21/1264

  Conscription: National Service Act 1939

  CAB21/2546

  Colonial armies

  CAB106/214

  Casualties May/June 1940

  CAB106/215

  Casualties May/June 1940

  CAB106/216

  Despatches on BEF

  CAB106/217

  Artillery reports

  CAB106/219

  Equipment losses

  CAB106/220

  Lessons of operations in Flanders 1940

  CAB106/225

  Lecture notes on campaign

  CAB106/228

  2nd Welsh Guards at Boulogne

  CAB106/229

  657 Company, Royal Engineers

  CAB106/230

  20th Guards Brigade at Bolougne

  CAB106/232

  Personal account of withdrawal

  CAB106/233

  3RTR

  CAB106/238

  Summary of Flanders campaign

  CAB106/240

  12th Lancers

  CAB106/241

  QVR at Calais

  CAB106/242

  Royal Scots

  CAB106/243

  HQ retreat

  CAB106/244

  BEF operations

  CAB106/245

  Irish Fusiliers

  CAB106/248

  131 Brigade Diary

  CAB106/250

  Northumberland Fusiliers

  CAB106/251

  Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire

  CAB106/252

  2 Corps withdrawal

  CAB106/252

  ‘Crowded House’ personal report

  CAB106/254

  Diary of POW Brigadier-General Davidson

  CAB106/260

  Report by Lord Gort on the state of the army

  CAB106/292

  Notes on the 61st
in France

  CAB121/294

  POWs in Europe: repatriation and exchanges

  FO371/28277

  Internees and POWs in France 1941

  FO371/28285

  Welfare of POWs in France and Belgium

  FO371/31908

  Welfare of POWs in France and Belgium

  FO916/123

  Welfare of British prisoners in Belgium

  FO916/133

  Welfare of POWs in Belgium and France

  FO916/2574

  POW welfare

  FO916/2579

  POWs 1940

  FO916/2591

  Welfare of POWs and internees in France and Belgium

  FO916/2599

  POWs in France 1940/41

  HO213/1745

  Repatriation and exchange: specified German nationals in UK and British subjects in Gemany; POWs in UK and Germany

  LAB25/33

  Ministry of Labour War Book – conscription

  LAB25/110

  Position of reservists upon mobilization

  PREM1/312

  Mobilization of the Territorial Army

  PREM1/385

  Prime Minister’s statement on conscription

  PREM 3/364/8

  Repatriation of long-term British and German prisoners, and of Russians captured on Western Front

  TS26/63

  War crimes reports

  TS26/64

  War crimes general file

  TS26/65a

  War crimes general papers

  TS26/65b

  War crimes general notes

  TS26/66

  UNWCC General File

  TS26/108

  War crimes prior to D-Day

  TS26/137

  War crimes, German cases in suspense

  TS26/189

  United Nations War Crimes Commission UK/G/12

  TS26/202

  United Nations War Crimes Commission 124/UK/G/24

  TS26/203

  United Nations War Crimes Commission 125/UK/G/25

  TS26/204

  United Nations War Crimes Commission UK/G/26

 

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