The Archive · 1940

With the B.E.F. in France

These two official War Office photographs show British troops at the front in France, In the upper picture men of the Hampshire Regiment are shown in a post near the front line held before the British advanced to Belgian and Dutch assistance.

Below a motor-cyclist of the Lincolnshire The post was oppropriateli named "Sweine Basher," regiment is seen making use of a shell-hole in a wall, This picture was taken during tactical exercises just behind the front line, Liege, the Germans are pushing Rotterdam, the fall of which have been less intense. There was little damage done to the aerodromes, and casualties were slight.

The advance of enemy troops has been impeded by a series of successful night bombing attacks on both sides of the Dutch frontier.

Reoccupation of Waalhaven by the enemy has been followed by a series of bombing attacks, which has re-

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