‘Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940’, by Richard Ernst Eurich.
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Withdrawal from Dunkirk, June 1940
by Richard Ernst Eurich
National Maritime Museum
Date painted: 1940
Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Collection: National Maritime Museum
One of a group of 11 oil paintings by Eurich, an official war artist, allocated to the National Maritime Museum after World War II. The image was used by the Navy as its Christmas card for 1940, and refers to the action between 20th May and 4th June that summer, when 366,162 men of the British Expeditionary Force and Allied forces were evacuated to England under difficult conditions. The port of Dunkirk and the two moles, or large jetties that pointed out seawards, were the main evacuation points, although many were also taken off the beaches west and north of the town.
photo credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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(c) BRIDGEMAN; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation
The Dunkirk Project 
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