Re:My grandfather at Dunkirk
by mrec on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:53PM
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> the rearguard was almost exclusively French troops
Bit of a stretch for "almost". The entire 51st Highland Division stayed as part of the rearguard, and few if any of them made it home. [1]
Possibly apocryphal: "One Highlander on the beaches of Dunkirk was overheard telling a comrade: 'If the English surrender too, it's going to be a long war'”
Bit of a stretch for "almost". The entire 51st Highland Division stayed as part of the rearguard, and few if any of them made it home. [1]
Possibly apocryphal: "One Highlander on the beaches of Dunkirk was overheard telling a comrade: 'If the English surrender too, it's going to be a long war'”
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_(Highland)_Division#Franc...