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 ...

Much is being made of the 75th anniversary of the Dunkirk 'Miracle'. And rightly so. The evacuation rescued 300,000 fighting men. It also enabled a morale-boosting, positive spin on what had been a ...

JOHN Borland, who has died aged 92, was one of the last veterans of the 51st Highland Division who were captured at St Valery in June 1940. John was later a Boys’ Brigade leader mentoring many boys in ...

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, ...