Royal Navy veteran and Poole Maritime Trust trustee, Michael ‘Jack’ Hawkins BEM, said: "Poole and the people of Poole played a significant role in the evacuation of France beginning on 26 May 1940 and ...

will be among the fleet of small craft recreating the journey from Ramsgate to Dunkirk, over the period May 21-26. The crossing, organised by the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS), will ...

approximately 340,000 men were picked up by some 900 ships, many of them small, privately-owned vessels. Demoralised, starving and exhausted, the men waiting on the beaches of Dunkirk endured days ...