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    The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the contingent of the British Army sent to France in 1939 after Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany...
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  • The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the six divisions the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War. Planning for a British...
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    important role was as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) for the first year and a half of the First World War. After the British...
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  • Nevill (b. bef. 1616) John Nevill (b. bef. 1616) Thomas Nevill (b. bef. 1616) Charles Nevill (b. bef. 1616) Elizabeth Nevill (b. bef. 1590, died after 1648)...
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    navies evacuated the encircled elements of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and the French and Belgian armies from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo. German...
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    forces had trapped the BEF, the remains of the Belgian forces, and three French field armies along the northern coast of France. BEF commander General Viscount...
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    which German, French, Belgian armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fought from Arras in France to Nieuwpoort (Nieuport) on the Belgian coast...
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  • Welsh minister John Evans (bishop) (bef. died 1724), Welsh-born bishop of Bangor and bishop of Meath John Evans (died 1779), Welsh Anglican priest and curate...
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    the French First and Seventh Armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) – to the River Dyle. On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes...
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    provision was made for combined operations with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) but joint arrangements had been made and in 1911 during the Second Moroccan...
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