6 June 1944

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My great uncle was one of the last men to be rescued off the beach at Dunkirk, and he returned to the continent a couple of days after D-day to push inland as an intelligence and spotting officer with the Royal Artillery. He was later part of the vehicle column which was due to rendezvous with the paratrooper units at Arnhem and he told me a number of stories about that which have yet to see the light of day in the official accounts (and may have to wait for the 99 year rule to expire before they do). Later he had the unpleasant experience of discovering one of the death camps and having to go back and report it.

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