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Slade Timandra - From A Hard Place To A Rock First - Hand Accounts Of Soldiers Of The British Expeditionary Force On The Run In World War Two - Hardcover
Slade Timandra - From A Hard Place To A Rock First - Hand Accounts Of Soldiers Of The British Expeditionary Force On The Run In World War Two - Hardcover
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Description: Cousins Captain Chris Waters of the Royal Engineers and Captain Jimmy Johnson of the Royal Welch Fusiliers were with the British Expeditionary Force in the defence of Dunkirk. In late May 1940, Jimmy (son - in - law of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes) was shot and captured near the Belgium border. Chris was captured after his regiment which was attached to the 51st Highland Division was forced to surrender at St - Val ry. Both men managed to escape their German captors and accompanied by fellow officers began separately to work their way through France into Spain. Having crossed the Pyrenees they were both re - captured but by an extraordinary coincidence met up in Barcelona. Chris and Jimmy recorded their escape in journals with Jimmy also writing many letters home from internment in France. Eventually the escapees now in a large group were released and arrived in Gibraltar. It was not the safe haven they had hoped for. One last cruel twist of fate would deny some of them a return home.
Title: From A Hard Place To A Rock First - Hand Accounts Of Soldiers Of The British Expeditionary Force On The Run In World War Two
Author(s): Slade Timandra
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Barcode: 9781803131924
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/28/2022
Category: Second World War
Description: Cousins Captain Chris Waters of the Royal Engineers and Captain Jimmy Johnson of the Royal Welch Fusiliers were with the British Expeditionary Force in the defence of Dunkirk. In late May 1940, Jimmy (son - in - law of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes) was shot and captured near the Belgium border. Chris was captured after his regiment which was attached to the 51st Highland Division was forced to surrender at St - Val ry. Both men managed to escape their German captors and accompanied by fellow officers began separately to work their way through France into Spain. Having crossed the Pyrenees they were both re - captured but by an extraordinary coincidence met up in Barcelona. Chris and Jimmy recorded their escape in journals with Jimmy also writing many letters home from internment in France. Eventually the escapees now in a large group were released and arrived in Gibraltar. It was not the safe haven they had hoped for. One last cruel twist of fate would deny some of them a return home.
Title: From A Hard Place To A Rock First - Hand Accounts Of Soldiers Of The British Expeditionary Force On The Run In World War Two
Author(s): Slade Timandra
Publisher: Troubador Publishing
Barcode: 9781803131924
Pages: 304 Pages
Publication Date: 6/28/2022
Category: Second World War
