Authors and Contributors this page:
T.F. Mills
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Page created
1 September 2000
.
Corrected and updated
04.12.2005
Disclaimers
SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945
North West Europe
1940
Causes
Chronology
Results
Forces & Casualties
Commanders
Battles & Battle Honours
Order of Battle
Campaign Medals
Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
Museums & Memorials
Bibliography
External Links
Causes
Chronology
(except battles, which see
below
)
Results
Forces and Casualties
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
subtotal
TOTAL
Commanders
Britain and Allies:
Germany:
Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
Date
Battles
(Battle Honours
are shown in
bold face
)
Regiments
(regts with emblazoned Honours shown in
bold;
non-honoured in italics
)
Note:
British battle honours were published in separate regimental lists between 1957 and 1960.
1940 May 10-16
Dyle
Cav:
DG4/7
L12
H13/18
Inf:
G1 G2 F1 F22 F23
F49
F57
F63
F64
F68
F83
1940 May 17-19
Withdrawal to the Escaut
Cav:
DG5
H13/18
H15/19
Y56
Inf:
F15 F22 F63 F75 F87
1940 May 19-22
Defence of Escaut
Inf:
G2
F1
F2 F3 F5
F6
F9 F15
F20
F23
F28
F29 F30 F31 F32 F34 F43 F48 F50 F53 F57 F63 F64 F79
1940 May 20
Amiens 1940
Inf:
F35
1940 May 19-24
Defence of Arras
Cav:
L12
Inf:
G5
F15 F19 F21 F27 F42 F48
F62
F63
1940 May 21
Arras Counterattack
Cav:
L12
RTR
Inf:
F5 F68
1940 May 22-25
Boulogne 1940
Inf:
G4
G5
1940 May 22-26
Calais 1940
Cav:
RTR
Inf:
F60
RB
QVR
1940 May 23-27
French Frontier 1940
Inf:
F15
1940 May 23-29
St Omer-La Bassée
Cav:
DG5
RTR
Y56
Inf:
G5 F3 F1 F4 F5
F9
F20
F22
F23
F28
F29
F35
F39
F44 F45 F49 F63 F68
F79
F87
1940 May 28
Wormhoudt
Inf:
F6
F22 F28 F29
1940 May 27-29
Cassel
Cav:
Y56
Inf:
F22
F28
F43
1940 May 27-28
Forêt de Nieppe
Inf:
F35 F50
1940 May 26-28
Ypres-Comines Canal
Cav:
H13/18
Inf:
F6
F15 F21 F26 F27 F42
F43
F45 F48 F57 F62 F63
F64
F72 F75
1940 May 26-
1940 June 3
Dunkirk 1940
Cav:
DG4/7
DG5
L12
Y41
Inf:
G1
G2
F4
F5
F7
F10
F12
F15
F16
F19 F22
F25
F30
F31
F33
F34
F37
F40
F42 F45
F47
F49
F53
F57
F68
F75
F83
Operation Dynamo
, by Alan L. Putland (
Battle of Britain
)
1940 May 24-
1940 June 5
Somme 1940
Cav:
DG2
L9
H10
?/RTR
Y37
Inf:
F21 F34 F42 F72 F75 F79 F91
1940 June 6-10
Withdrawal to the Seine
Cav:
DG2
L9
Y37
Inf:
F3 F21 F72
1940 June 9-18
Withdrawal to Cherbourg
Inf:
5/F71 5/F71 9/F71
1940 June 10-12
St Valery-en-Caux
Cav:
Y37
Inf:
F9
F33
F42
F72
F75 F79
L13
1940 June 13
Saar
Inf:
F42
L13
1940 May 19-
1940 June 13
North-West Europe 1940
Cav:
DG2
DG4/7
DG5
L9
H10
L12
H13/18
H15/19
RTR
Y37
Y41
Y56
Inf:
G1
G2
G4
G5
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
F9
F10
F12
F14
F15
F16
F19
F20
F21
F22
F23
F25
F26
F27
F28
F29
F30
F31
F32
F33
F34
F35
F37
F38
F39
F40
F42
F43
F44
F45
F47
F48
F49
F50
F53
F57
F60
F62
F63
F64
F65
F68
F71
F72
F75
F79
F83
F87
F91
RB
QVR
L13
Europe 1939-45
Police:
RCMP
Note:
see also
N.W. Europe 1942
,
N.W. Europe 1944-45
and
Southern France 1944
.
Year dates are compressed as appropriate, e.g. "N.W. Europe 1940 '44-45".
"North-West Europe" is displayed on Colours as "N.W. Europe"
Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
British Expeditionary Force, France, 1940
, by Leo Niehorster (
World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle and Organizations
) .
British Expeditionary Force Order of Battle, 1940
by Conor Savoy.
The British Expeditionary Force, May 1940
by Graham Watson (Orbat.com)
Medals
Index of Campaign Medals
Societies, Forums & Re-Enactors
France 1940 Discussion Forum
(Yahoo!Groups)
1940 Dunkirk Veterans Association
Museums & Memorials
Bibliography
How to Find Books
Books:
Wilson, Patrick.
Dunkirk: from disaster to deliverance.
Leo Cooper
External Links
General History
World War Two in Europe
, by Alexander Ganse (
World History at KMLA
)
France 1940
, by N. Leulliot
Lager Sylt Concentration Camp, Alderney
, by Nick Catford (
Subterranea Britannica
)