George Henry Swinn

Brest was the disembarkation port for the stores and vehicles of the first British Expeditionary Force, and temporary maintenance depots were formed there until an Advanced Base was established near Le Havre.

In 1940, after the German entry into Paris on 14th June, the first contingent of the Canadian forces, which had only just reached France, were re-embarked from Brest, as were the last of the United Kingdom forces remaining in France - our Line of Communication troops and material.

A Fighter Squadron of the Royal Air Force Component operated from Brest to give close protection to the port during re-embarkation.

Nearly 100 men from the 1939-45 war casualties or commemorated in the site.

Reported in the local paper to have been killed by machine gun fire while on the deck of a ship leaving the harbour. An officer informed Beatrice later he had been killed in an accident on his motorbike traveling against the flow of evacuees back towards his unit to make sure they had all been evacuated.

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