Expeditionary Force. 2 minute read. TIME. September 7, 1925 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... He knew that the British Government would not dare arriveat definite terms until Washington had made terms, ...

The Boer War had provoked British war minister Richard Haldane, to create the (BEF) or the ‘British Expeditionary Force’, in case it was necessary to take part in a foreign war.

For most of the war, the BBC broadcast to the men and women of the armed services: the Forces Programme, the General Forces Programme, and, after D-Day, the less-well-known Allied Expeditionary ...

The first was the dark Sunday, May 26, 1940, when the fagged-out British Expeditionary Force was fleeing under torrential Nazi fire toward Dunkirk beach. Five days later most of that Army got ...

LONDON, Jan. 12.—The War Office last night gave out the following dispatch from Major Gen. Egerton, commanding the Somaliland expeditionary force, dated Jidballi, Somaliland, Jan. 11: ...

The German onslaught continued into France on May 10, 1940, pushing the defending British Expeditionary Force (BEF), French, and Belgian troops back to the port city of Dunkirk.

The line along the Western Front had barely altered despite the best efforts of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army to break through the resolute German positions.