Toulon

City

Toulon is a town in southern France and a large military harbour on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, Toulon is the capital of the Var department in the former province of Provence. Toulon is an important centre for naval construction, fishing, wine making, and the manufacture of aeronautical equipment, armaments, maps, ...

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Documents about Toulon

Thursday 4th July 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Cabinet agrees French ships encountered on high seas be ordered to heave to and surrender or face being boarded or sunk
person Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope
place Gibraltar
place Alexandria
place Toulon
organisation United Nations
 

Monday 12th August 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Inquiry to be held into the selection of aliens for passage on the Arandora Star and conditions at Huyton Internment Camp
extract Air Chief: Air casualties yesterday 25, 60 enemy confirmed. Number of raids currently in progress including on Portsmouth
person Anthony Eden
person Alexander Cadogan
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Charles de Gaulle
person Clement Attlee
person William Anderson (RAAF officer)
place Somaliland
place Isle of Portland
place Gibraltar
place Toulon
organisation Home Office
 

Tuesday 1st October 1940

Meeting minutes

extract Australian PM "much disturbed" over Operation Menace failure. UK approach "strongly criticised". PM Churchill to respond
extract Air Chief: Air casualties yesterday 20 (12 pilots safe). Enemy 46 (+32 probable). Good results for RAF on Ostend, Berlin
person Anthony Eden
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person Charles de Gaulle
place Alexandria Troas
place Malta
place Africa
place Libya
place Toulon
 

Monday 4th November 1940

Meeting minutes

extract General Dill: "Possibility" of Italian advance into Egypt. Greece situation "still obscure". RAF will report tomorrow
extract Air Chief: Enemy air attacks "on a low scale" over weekend. A number of attacks on East Coast convoys, no casualties
person Alexander Cadogan
person Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
person Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges
person Andrew Greenwood
person John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
person Herbert Morrison
person Samuel Hoare
person Ernest Bevin
person Kingsley Wood
person Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso
person Clement Attlee
person John Dill
person Jean Bart
place Greece
place Egypt
place Cranborne
place Gisborne, New Zealand
place Halifax Peninsula
place Malta
place Toulon
organisation Home Office
organisation Government of Canada
organisation Daily Mirror
 

Thursday 6th February 1941

Developments at Vichy.

extract Eden: "Germans will stand no more delaying tactics from Marshal Petain". Renewed pressure for their use of French fleet
person Anthony Eden
person Maxime Weygand
person Adolf Hitler
place Paris
place Tunisia
place Syria
place Toulon
organisation Foreign Office (Germany)
organisation French Navy
 

Thursday 3rd April 1941

Meeting minutes

extract PM warns French battleship Dunkerque may be handed over to Germans. Consulting with Roosevelt on whether to attack it
place Toulon
organisation United States Navy