157th HAA Battery Diary entries 19 and 20 May 1940

German Panzers made it to Amiens on the afternoon of 19 May 1940 cutting the AASF off from the BEF.  The territorial soldiers of the 157th HAA Battery 53rd HAA (City of London) Regiment were now cut off from the channel coast and the BEF and received orders to head for Nantes.

The diary entries for 19 and 20 May 1940 read as follows:

19/05/40

08:00 Orders received that no further salvage forces will be sent out.  Two guns in action ST LUCIEN FERME.  One in action POUAN (EAST).  One in action POUAN (WEST).  Preliminary instructions received re. reorganisation of 12th (Anti Aircraft) Brigade.

20/05/40

08:00 Detailed instructions received re. reorganisation of 12th (Anti Aircraft) Brigade received and put into action.  Transfer of personnel carried out and equipment handed over.
Instructions re. move of remainder of Battery to Nantes received.