British Expeditionary Force (BEF)

Home-based regular British army forces sent to northern France at the start of World Wars I and II to support the French armies. Britain wished to help France in case of a German attack, and the BEF was created in 1908 to ensure that British forces would be trained and ready to respond quickly. It consisted of six infantry divisions and one cavalry division. Five divisions sent to France at the outbreak of World War I sustained heavy losses and were succeeded by vast British armies. Divisions sent to France early in World War II (1939) returned to England when France fell the next year.

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The troops from the 58th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment were posted to France in May 1940 as part of the British Expeditionary Force.

Hunt is on for relations of tragic soldier; Memorial to Dunkirk ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

They were sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force and never came back.

War heroes return to battlefields; LOTTERY FUNDS EMOTIONAL TRIPS FOR ... by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)

Byline: Lord Haig TRY as he might, Lord Haig could never really escape from under the shadow of his father, commander of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War.

OBITUARY by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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