The war did not stop with the Dunkirk retreat, not at all. But the British could defend their island, which, in Ben Op terms, was like a monastery. Similarly with us, we can better defend our ...

The only option left was to retreat to Dunkirk, where they could be taken back to England. With the majority of Britain and France's entire armies in one area - surrounded by the Germans - this ...

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Mr Whitwell, who joined the British Army in 1939, was part of the retreat to Dunkirk, but was not rescued during the famous evacuation of the beaches. He spent a further 16 days in France before ...

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After 10 May, he and his unit were ordered back into France and he was witness to some terrifying Luftwaffe bombing as the Allied retreat got under way. Then he was told to 'get back to Dunkirk ...

Camilla, 76, will view a World War II tunic that belonged to Major Bruce Shand, a 12th Royal Lancer who won the Military Cross during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and again at El Alamein in 1942.