BRITISH MILITARY LEADERS
GRAND CROSS OF LEGION OF HONOUR AWARD CONFERRED BY ALLIED COMMANDER MR CHURCHILL WITNESSES CEREMONY [British Official Wireless] (Received 9th January, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, Bth January. General Gamelin, Commander of the Allied Forces, to-day invested General Viscount Gort, British Commander-in-Chief, and General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of HonThe ceremony was witnessed by Mr Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, who is at present on a visit to the British Expeditionary Force. WESTERN FRONT (Received 9th January, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, Bth January. The French official morning communique states: “It was a quiet night on the whole There was patrol activity in the region west of the Vosges.” (Received 9th January, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, Bth January. A war communique from the Western Front says that enemy reconnaissance in the frontier region west of Merzig was repulsed with enemy casualties.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 January 1940, Page 6
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