While British and
Free French objectives in Indo-China were broadly consistent, their plans were frustrated by the remoteness and relative strategic insignificance of the Indo-Chinese peninsula for much of the war.
After Syria, the
Free French troops were redeployed in North Africa, being reinforced by other French units.
There are many stories of the stormy relationship between De Gaulle and Winston Churchill, who once said: "The heaviest cross I had to bear during the wartime years was the cross of Lorraine" - the badge of the
Free French.
303 Mark VII--some
Free French and Algerian troops were issued British No.
General Charles de Gaulle, the vocal, opinionated, and argumentative 53-year-old leader of the
Free French forces, saw things differently.
Likewise, the
Free French sailors sailed in borrowed Allied vessels.
The recipients are not all D-Day veterans but soldiers, sailors and airmen, who also fought alongside the
Free French to rid their country of the German invaders.
Leamington library, on the Parade, is hosting
free French for all this evening from 6pm to 7.
Montgomery and de Gaulle Bernard Montgomery was a British field marshal and one of the leading Allied commanders; Charles de Gaulle was the leader of the
Free French resistance to the Nazis.
If you don't mind the rain, go to the mile-long Esplanade for stunning views across the Clyde, or go and see the
Free French Memorial on Lyle Hill, a spectacular viewpoint and memorial to the members of the
Free French Navy stationed on the Clyde during World War II.
This tribute to the official leader of the
Free French movement, who kept the bond between Britain and France alive in the early 1940s, when Nazi Germany menaced Europe and the British Isles, was largely ignored by the British government, media, and general public.
