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| 1940 | Alexander, Harold |  |
| 31st May Bastion Decides to evacuate all 3 remaining Divisions of the BEF on 1st June |
| 31st May Dunkirk Gort returns to Britain & Alexander is put in charge of the 3 BEF Divisions at Dunkirk |
| 31st May Bastion Ignores orders from Gort & the French to stay |
| 1940 | Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| 27th May Dunkirk Evacuation from Dunkirk begins |
| 27th May Dunkirk The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk |
| 28th May Dunkirk Announces in Cabinet, "of course, whatever happens at Dunkirk, we shall fight on" |
| 31st May Dunkirk Attends a Supreme War Council, announces 165,000 British had been evacuated |
| 4th June Dunkirk The Germans enter Dunkirk |
| 1940 | Eden, Robert Anthony | |
| 30th May Dunkirk Decides "no further proporionate damage could be inflicted on the enemy" |
| 30th May Dunkirk Orders Gort to capitulate the BEF |
| 1940 | Montgomery, Bernard Law | |
| 1st June La Panne Completes the withdrawal of 2nd Corps from La Panne & Dunkirk |
| 1940 | Ramsay, Bertram | |
| 20th May Dunkirk It is planned to evacuate 10,000 from Calais , Boulogne & Dunkirk every 24 hrs |
| 1940 | Vereker | |
| 31st May Bastion The Commander of the BEF follows Cabinet orders & returns to Britain |
