My Dunkirk By Survivors

Discussion in '1940' started by Gazz, Mar 18, 2020.

  1. Osborne2

    Osborne2 Well-Known Member

    GAZZ tremendous. Keep it coming Thank you.
     
  2. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    One more for today then.
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  3. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    Todays installment
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  4. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    Another Border Regiment account.
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  5. PackRat

    PackRat Well-Known Member

    These are great, thanks for posting them Gazz.
     
  6. Markyboy

    Markyboy Member

    Not quite linked to this but to save starting another thread, I found out today that veteran Colin Ashford is still with us at 101. He was injured and brought back via Dunkirk, then was involved in camouflage in North Africa (fake ports, tanks etc). He’s an aviation artist of some note as well.
     
  7. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    7th Battalion Green Howards 5 page account.
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  8. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    Today a Royal Artillery account
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  9. Roy Martin

    Roy Martin Senior Member

    There was a French cross channel ferry called Cote d'Argent, which was involved in the evacuation, mainly landing troops at Folkstone. She is described as 'being under British control', but was seized by the Germans on a subsequent visit to Cherbourg
     
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  10. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    Another couple of Artillery accounts for today
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  11. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    Another Artillery account and an interesting one from the Signals Independant Interception Unit.

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  12. slick

    slick Junior Member

    Thanks Gazz, these are superb, thanks for posting them.
     
  13. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    They're terrific. Lots of detail.
     
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  14. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    Todays installments both Artillery.
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  15. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    An account from the gentleman who compiled the booklet.
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  16. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    This one is from a lady called Margot Vigin who had an 'interesting' war.

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  17. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

  18. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    The next couple of posts are the short stories at the end of the booklet.
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  19. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    The the last of the short accounts.
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  20. Gazz

    Gazz Active Member

    I thought I would post the names of the contributors in the booklet in case anyone doing a relative research and searches the forum can get results.
    George Davey 1st Border Regiment
    Douglas Philips 4th Border Regiment
    James Miller 2nd Durham Light Infantry
    Edward Brown Royal Army Medical Corps
    Eric Duffell 1st Border Regiment
    Fred Turner 99th Field Regiment Royal Bucks Yeomanry
    George Curtis 1st Border Regiment
    George Bowes 7th Green Howards
    John Barry 1st Medium Royal Artillery
    John Coleman 1st Medium Royal Artillery
    William L Raw Royal Horse Artillery
    Mick Maquire 1st Medium Royal Artillery
    Ted Smith Royal Corps of Signals
    Tom P Vasey 1st Medium Royal Artillery
    Alex Turner 1st Border Regiment
    Margot Vigin

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