... heavy. The battalion was among the last to evacuate Dunkirk, and in the delaying rearguard fighting it was engaged in the losses were again considerable, 26 officers and 450 men. From the grim sands Flanders the survivors came eventually to a certain ...

... fighting in France and Flanders well within remembrance, and we know how. in conformance with the general plan after the German breakthrough, the British retreated steadily and five-sixths of the troops were successfully evacuated from Dunkirk by a miracle ...