I went to see the film Dunkirk because of my grandfather, Guy Farrer. He was one of the volunteers who went over to rescue British and French troops from the beaches. He didn't talk about it much ...

HMS Wellington, also saw action during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, when she was ... Fog prevented any rescue ships reaching the coast and the 51st Highlanders ...

Dunkirk tells of British and Allied troops trapped on a beach ... She said: "The British had the courage to come and rescue their compatriots - that was magnificent. And, happily, the English ...

In early May 1940, during the first year of World War Two, the British ... the beaches of Dunkirk endured days of fierce bombardment, while many of the boats that came to their rescue were sunk ...

Plans for a 'Dunkirk-style' evacuation of up to 16,000 ... would be led by the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines. British ...

On 4 June 1940, as the Dunkirk evacuations drew to a close, Winston Churchill delivered a thrilling speech to the House of Commons. He looked back at the miraculous rescue of the British ...

Recently, however, scholarly attention has been throwing fresh light on British operations that followed Dunkirk, notably with Peter Whelan ... as the army fell back to the coast for rescue by sea, ...