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A 2-pdr anti-tank gun of 44 Battery, 13th Anti-Tank Regiment, 2nd Division in the snow near Beuvry, 15 February 1940. The crew wear snow suits and the gun is camouflaged with white sheets. This is the British Expeditionary Force order of battle on 9 May 1940, the day before the German forces initiated the Battle of France.
A local counter-attack at the Battle of Arras (1940) (21 May) was a considerable tactical success but the BEF, French and Belgian forces north of the Somme River retreated to Dunkirk on the French North Sea coast soon after, British and French troops being evacuated in Operation Dynamo (26 May – 4 June) to England after the capitulation of ...
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The division soon after deployed to France, as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and it then served on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. The war establishment, the on-paper strength, of an infantry division in 1914 was 18,179 men, 5,594 horses, 18 motor vehicles, 76 pieces of artillery, and 24 machine guns. While there was a small ...
The Beauman Division was an improvised formation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) during the Second World War, which fought in France against the German 4th Army in June 1940, during Fall Rot (Case Red), the final German offensive of the Battle of France.
When the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) went to France, the Royal Air Force Component of the British Expeditionary Force (Air Component, Air Vice-Marshal Charles Blount) accompanied the BEF for air support and the Advanced Air Striking Force (AASF, Air Vice-Marshal Patrick Playfair) the former No. 1 Group RAF of Bomber Command, moved to ...
4 Order of battle. 5 Notes. ... (7 June 1940) Arkforce was an ad hoc formation of the British Expeditionary Force during the Battle of France in 1940.
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was sent to help defend France. After the Phoney War of October 1939 to April 1940, Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France on 10 May 1940. Three panzer corps attacked through the Ardennes and drove northwest to the English Channel.