Madam, - After finding accounts describing the heroic actions fought by the Irish Guards, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Ulster Rifles, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and Dragoon Guards in Boulogne, and on the way to Dunkirk, in 1940, I am now searching for other verbal or written accounts of these actions.
I am also searching for accounts from other soldiers or sailors who served in the British Expeditionary Force, the Royal Navy, and in little boats, SS or HMS ships or cross-Channel steamers, during the campaign in France and Belgium in 1940 - or from their families if they have written memoirs about the campaign. This is in connection with a book about Dunkirk commissioned by Penguin.
It is to be a monument to the forgotten heroes whose last-ditch stands and daring acts at sea made the 1940 evacuations from France possible.
I can be contacted at the address below, by telephone at 0044-20-7435-1035 or 004420-7435-1181 or by email to sebags@dircon.co.uk. - Yours, etc.,
HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE,
37 Tanza Road,
London NW3 2UA.