Complex sentence: On 19 May, Lieutenant-General Douglas Brownrigg, the Adjutant General of the BEF, appointed Colonel Rupert Holland to command the British troops in Calais and to arrange the evacuation of non-combatant personnel and wounded.
Split into simpler sentences: On 19 May, Lieutenant-General Douglas Brownrigg, the Adjutant General of the BEF, aappointed Colonel Rupert Holland to command the British troops in Calais. Holland was also ordered to arrange the evacuation of non-combatant personnel and wounded.