Author Topic: The sacrifice of the 51st Highland Division and the 'other side of Dunkirk'  (Read 601 times)


Anchorman

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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.
"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself."