HMS Wellington, also saw action during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk, when she was called off convoy duty and ordered to St Valery, 30 miles north-east of Le Havre.
Kay Gladstone, Curator at the Imperial War Museum Lieutenant Philip Roderick Hall shot the films while he was serving on HMS Whitehall during the evacuation from Dunkirk. There is also footage of him ...
He was still a probationary when the war started and was posted to HMS Grenade at Harwich ... his ship received orders to proceed to a 'place called Dunkirk'. Everybody thought this was in ...
Lieutenant Philip Roderick Hall shot the films while he was serving on HMS Whitehall during the evacuation from Dunkirk. There is also footage of him training as a Fleet Air Arm pilot prior to being ...
The tug 'Foremost 22' took part in the evacuation, helping tow the damaged HMS Sharpshooter from Dunkirk to Dover Researchers have launched a mission to find wrecks of ships lost during the ...