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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

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Notes on Operation Dynamo.

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Notes on the evacuations of forces from Le Havre, St Valery, St Malo etc [France].

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Written from Dover.
With an account of the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo).

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Papers on ELS's political, military and public activities, including: files on his Parliamentary work; military maps, telegrams and correspondence, particularly relating to the Dakar landings and ELS's work with the Free French as First Minister to Syria and the Lebanon; a file on his re-election campaign in the 1945 General Election.

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Including Second World War service, in particular the evacuation from Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo) and the attack on the French Fleet at Mers el-Kebir, in Algeria (Operation Catapult), by Force H.

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

Scope and Contents The collection spans Admiral Ramsay's career from life as a midshipman to the D-Day landings. Included is his draft manuscript giving a full account of the reasons for his resignation as Chief of Staff of the Home Fleet in 1935, and his subsequent temporary retirement. Operation Dynamo is also well covered with three bound volumes of naval despatches but there is relatively little on the Normandy landings of 1944. This is due to many papers being destroyed in France by Admiral Ramsay's...