70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo

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70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo

Post by DuncaninFrance » Sun May 02, 2010 4:36 am

It is also the 70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo at the end of May.
Here is a link to an interesting pdf file from the CWGC

http://www.cwgc.org/admin/files/Dunkirk.pdf
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Re: 70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo

Post by DuncaninFrance » Thu May 27, 2010 5:14 am

Ships recreate Dunkirk journey for 70th anniversary :GBR: :FRA:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8707657.stm
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Re: 70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo

Post by riptidenj » Thu May 27, 2010 8:45 pm

My mother and grandmother knew Charles Lightoller, Second Officer-and senior surviving officer-of theTitanic.
In 1940 at the age of 66 he took his boat, The Sundowner and crossed the Channel with a crew of 3-his eldest son and an 18 year old Sea Scout. They brought 130 men back.
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Re: 70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo

Post by Niner » Thu May 27, 2010 9:08 pm

That's an interesting story riptidenj. I found this link with a short biography mentioning what you are saying.

http://www.dover-kent.co.uk/people/lightoller.htm
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Re: 70th Anniversary of the Dunkirk rescue: Operation Dynamo

Post by Aughnanure » Fri May 28, 2010 7:33 am

In 1960 I stayed for a while with an old army mate (well, not so old then) in London, his landlady was a Mrs Bunt and she had a framed certificate that honoured her late husband for his contribution to the evacuation. He was a Thames Tug Master and he took his river tug across the Channel a more than once, as I remember the reading of it.
He may have spent a lot of time ferrying troops out to larger vessels.

It's something that I've always remembered.
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