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Hughie and George were both radar operators in the 85th Heavy AA Regiment. They were standing patiently among the sandunes at Dunkirk. Suddenly a Stuka bomber dropped a stray shell close to them. Both ...

Regimental Seargent Major Thomas R Jelley, my grandfather, spent his 20th birthday on the beaches of Dunkirk, bunkered down, avoiding the myriad of armory being leveled at his unit by the Nazi guns ...

Today sees the start of a week of commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk. Code-named Operation Dynamo, 338,226 ...

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940. As France fell to the German armies in May 1940, 400,000 Allied troops were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk.

A Dunkirk veteran, who is celebrating his 105th birthday, is "probably more alert than most people half his age", his friend has said. John Hamilton, who was part of the British Army told to evacuate ...