LORD GORT BACK IN LONDON

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23036, 3 June 1940, Page 7

LORD GORT BACK IN LONDON

HONOUR CONFERRED BY KING reluctance to leave * TROOPS (Received June 2, 9 p.m.) LONDON, June 2. The Commander'-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force. (General Lord Gort) has returned to London. A War Office communique states that Lord Gort handed Over command of the remaining troops on the orders of the Government as a result of good progress made in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force. Lord Gort was received by the icing, who conferred on him the Order of the Knight Grand Gross of the Bath, the oldest and most- distinguished of the British orders of chivalry. When i he arrived in London early yesterday, Lord Gort was met at the station by Mr Anthony Eden, the Secretary of State for War. He was subsequently in conference at the War Office. “It is not the arrival of myself that matters., It is the arrival of my Army,” said Lord Gort to one officer who welcomed him when he left a small vessel accompanied by only two officers. Lord Gort also Said: “We shall meet them again, and next time Victory Will be with us.” These remarks were made to an officer who Said that if the decision had been left to Lord Gort, be would not have taken even, the last Shin from devastated Dunkirk, but the first of the country’s soldiers had to obey the orders of His Majesty’s Government. LoM Gort stood on the beach, reluctant to leave. He Often looked back

- a • n towards where his men Were fighting, “It was hard to get him away,” said those who stood oh the beach with him, “but eventually When a tiny craft bobbed shoreward he boarded It. -To' a senior naval officer he expressed appreciation ’of the Navy’s superb service.”

ment was to the Royal Air Force training school at Uxbridge. He was later posted to- other depots in the United Kingdom and then saw overseas service at Amman. in Palestine ahd at a station south of Khartoum. Squadron Leader Jarman was chosen to take part ih the great air display at Hendon and he also distinguished- himself by taking part in,a record flight of 25,000 miles through Africa. Confirming his studies in engineering, he has gained a diploma since he joined the Aif Force, ahd has also specialised in Army co-operation photography and surveying. Recently he was stationed in Wales, but applied to be attached to a squadron, since when he has been fighting with the Royal Air Force in its co-operation with the Army. Squadron Leader Jarman visited his home in Christchurch on leave in March of last yeah.