IN FRANCE & NORWAY
BRITISH FORCES
41,000 MEN LOST AS
PRISONERS
13,250 KILLED
a\ec. i p.m.) RUGBY, May ]5. The total number of British Imperial troops sent to France in June, 1940, was 437,000, and the number sent to Norway was 23,800. the Financial Secretary of the War Office stated in the House of Commons. The number who returned from France, including: wounded who were brought away, was 384,000, a- ' from Norway 22,600.
The number left in France as prisoners of war was 40,000, and in Norway 950.—8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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88IN FRANCE & NORWAY Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 114, 16 May 1941, Page 7
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