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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2017, 11:49:38 AM

Title: The sacrifice of the 51st Highland Division and the 'other side of Dunkirk'
Post by: Nearly Sane on June 21, 2017, 11:49:38 AM

 Interesting article on those left behind


http://www.thenational.scot/culture/15357629.The_sacrifice_of_the_51st_Highland_Division_and_the__other_side_of_Dunkirk_/

Title: Re: The sacrifice of the 51st Highland Division and the 'other side of Dunkirk'
Post by: Anchorman on June 21, 2017, 04:26:03 PM

And interesting, too, to remember the 'D-day dodgers' the reconstituted 51st Highlanders, and their almost forgotten slog through North Africa and Sicily into Italy - recalled in Hamish Henderson's iconic "51st Highlanders farewell to Sicily" (AKA 'Banks of Sicily') Henderson being an intelligence officer with the 51st at the time.