3-023-546 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Allied Officers, Including General Maurice Gamelin, Watching British Expeditionary Force Soldiers Marching Through Belgium, 1940. 'Along the length of the Belgian border, the British. Not as many yet as there ought to be, but at least they're here. Same as they were the last time [ie during the First World War]. And the Allies have a good commander-in-chief, General Gamelin. He knows what he's doing doesn't he? For he too was in the last show'. From "Time To Remember - Run Rabbit Run", 1940 ( Reel 1); documentary film about events of early months of 1940.