[David_Hayward (RIP)]

After Gallipoli, the Anzac Motor Company in London, which was an importer of GM vehicles as well as a raft of US ones [exploitation of only sources available in the Great War] decided to/had to change their name to the Ancona Motor Company. Of course another casualty was Winston Churchill whilst First Lord of the Admiralty. As a result of the debacle he volunteered for active service and was appointed a Major-General, then assigned to the Western Front, and arguably never fully recovered at least in his own mind. My grandfather Ernest E.T. Hayward, was a senior civil servant in 1949-40 in the Admiralty and sat in on war meetings chaired by Churchill when First Lord, before he became PM. My father, Ernest G.W. Hayward, says that he always had the impression through his father that Churchill carried a personal stigma over Gallipoli.

I am bound to say that thank goodness common sense prevailed immediately after Dunkirk, as on 30 May 1940, Churchill cabled Lord Gort, the B.E.F. commander with a note to be passed to the French that the U.K. would ‘build up a new B.E.F.’ with equipment for five divisions to include Canadian and Australian troops, although arguably he also intended to include troops from the NZEF as well.

RIP.