We had spent the day in the forest. The Boche had overflown us often, but had not found us. As the light began to fail we were called to the Sergeant Major's truck. He was brief. "We are surrounded, ...

My father, Arthur ‘Dick’ Gascoigne Sutton, born in 1910 in Featherstone, Yorkshire, first joined the army in about 1927 at Pontefract Barracks, Yorkshire. He was in The King’s Own Light Infantry ...

THE disastrously failed evacuation from St Valery in June 1940 impacted in Scotland like no other Second World War engagement. Over a few days in June, the 51st Highland Division, following a heroic ...

We had spent the day in the forest. The Boche had overflown us often, but had not found us. As the light began to fail we were called to the Sergeant Major's truck. He was brief. "We are surrounded, ...