We can all picture soldiers dragging their rifles through the surf on a French beach. For about 15% of the British troops landing on D-Day, 6 June 1944, this was not the first time they had wet their ...

Jack was only 19 when he was captured at Dunkirk. After waiting days for a boat he was rounded up by German troops. The first night was spent in a field near the beaches and mindful of the German's ...

My father John Sisterson enlisted in the 1st Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers in 1932. After tours of duty in Palestine (now Isreal)and Malta he was trained as a electrician to work on London's ...

John Powell later worked in farming and as a storekeeper. The grandfather-of-two was among the men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) sent to France in 1940. He was part of the evacuation from ...

A fleet of 66 'little ships' is sailing from Ramsgate to Dunkirk in France to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. From 26 May to 4 June 1940, about 1,000 vessels sailed through heavy ...