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My grandfather, Arthur Davey, left a superb written account o his time with the British Expeditionary Force in France and this Website is the obvious place to maintain the record. I don't think I have read a better account of what the BEF went through in the months leading up to evacuation. Arthur subsequently spent 5 years in N. Africe running supplies up and down the coast in Dhows with Arab crews. I believe they regularly crossed the Med and went up as far as the Black Sea, doing exactly what I cannot recall being told. His stories of machine gun practice and severed masts and life aboard troop ships also need telling. He often claimed never to have got close to a German but his account of events in France contradicts this somewhat!