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See Bibliography: unpublished sources for an explanation of the National Archives abbreviations used below.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