Papers relating to Dunkirk, 1940.

Papers relating to Dunkirk including a wireless message to the Admiralty informing them British Expedition Force had been evacuated and the Navy was returning 23:30; a letter to Captain William George Tennant acknowledging his work getting allied troops away from Dunkirk; supplement to The London Gazette 10 October 1941 containing an account of the Operation of Dunkirk; Dunkirk Remembrance service order 1950; a 1961 letter from the Dunkirk 1940 Veteran's Association to Sir William Tennant about their regret that Tennant wont be able to make it and a copy of Tennant's message to be read out at the dinner.

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ID:	TEN/21
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Tennant, William George
Date made:	1940-01-01 - ?; 1940-06-10 1940
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Tennant, Sir William George, Admiral, 1890-1963. (Manuscript) Logbooks of the PRINCE OF WALES and VENERABLE. (Manuscript) (TEN/1) Logbooks of the VENERABLE, IMPLACABLE and QUEEN. (Manuscript) (TEN/2) Private journal, LIZARD and FERRET. (Manuscript) (TEN/3) Private journal, CHATHAM and NOTTINGHAM. (Manuscript) (TEN/4) Private journal, CONCORD. (Manuscript) (TEN/5) Private journal, RENOWN. (Manuscript) (TEN/6) Standing orderbooks, SUSSEX. (Manuscript) (TEN/7) Notebook, Staff Course. (Manuscript) (TEN/8) Visitors book, ARETHUSA. (Manuscript) (TEN/9) Engagement diary, 1945. (Manuscript) (TEN/10) Engagement diary, 1946. (Manuscript) (TEN/11) Visitor's book, 1944-1946. (Manuscript) (TEN/12) Commemorative book, presented by City of Maldonado, 1949. (Manuscript) (TEN/13) Book of flimsies. (Manuscript) (TEN/14) Manuscript (TEN/15) Commissions, honours, awards, will. (Manuscript) (TEN/16) Journal, REPULSE. (Manuscript) (TEN/17) Letters regarding the employment of seamen from the SUSSEX. (Manuscript) (TEN/18) Letters of congratulation on promotion to Captain. (Manuscript) (TEN/19) Papers relating to service, 1920-1939. (Manuscript) (TEN/20) Papers relating to Dunkirk, 1940. (Manuscript) (TEN/21) Papers concerning the loss of the REPULSE. (Manuscript) (TEN/22) Letters of congratulation on promotion to Rear-Admiral. (Manuscript) (TEN/23) Account of the operation on 22 E A Infantry Brigade in Madagascar. (Manuscript) (TEN/24) Papers relating to service in the Eastern fleet, 1942-1944. (Manuscript) (TEN/25) Orders and other papers regarding Mulberry Harbour and the invasion of Normandy, 1944. (Manuscript) (TEN/26) Other war papers, personal and militarily unimportant letters. (Manuscript) (TEN/27) Notes for talks to ships' companies. (Manuscript) (TEN/28) Letters received, 1945-1950. (Manuscript) (TEN/29) Top Secret letters as C-in-C, America and West Indies, 1947-1949. (Manuscript) (TEN/30) Other papers, America and West Indies command. (Manuscript) (TEN/31) Notes for speeches while in command, America and West Indies. (Manuscript) (TEN/32) 'Roving commission and the Fluid Fleet', papers. (Manuscript) (TEN/33) Letters on retirement and post retirement, 1949-1963. (Manuscript) (TEN/34) Letters of congratulation on promotion to Admiral. (Manuscript) (TEN/35) Notes for post retirement speeches. (Manuscript) (TEN/36) File of correspondence on historical events. (Manuscript) (TEN/37) Papers set aside by Tennant for use in naval speeches. (Manuscript) (TEN/38) Programmes, menus and other miscellaneous printed material. (Manuscript) (TEN/39) Photographs and negatives. (Manuscript) (TEN/40) Papers relating to the Royal Naval Staff College, Greenwich, 1927-1932. (Manuscript) (TEN/41) Papers relating to the Imperial Defence College, 1937-1939. (Manuscript) (TEN/42) Press cuttings relating to goodwill tours of South America made by the GLASGOW and HMS SHEFFIELD. (Manuscript) (TEN/43) Press cuttings relating to Tennant's career. (Manuscript) (TEN/44)

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Papers relating to Dunkirk, 1940.

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