Prisoner of War (POW)
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Remember Grampian TV? Watch this 8-minute clip from their highly engaging 1980 documentary, ‘St Valery: Last Post for the 51st’. St Valery survivors tell their stories: “It was like a bee trying to sting an elephant. That’s my opinion anyway. We had no chance.” #StValery80.
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Remember Grampian TV? Watch this 8-minute clip from their highly engaging 1980 documentary, ‘St Valery: Last Post for the 51st’. St Valery survivors tell their stories: “It was like a bee trying to sting an elephant. That’s my opinion anyway. We had no chance.” #StValery80.
On 12th June 1940, Jack Low was a 21 year-old Scottish soldier with the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders. He was also part of the 21,000-strong 51st Highland Division who that morning had been forced to surrender to the Germans at St. Valery-en-Caux in France. Marched and then put on cattle trucks to POW camps in […]
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- Prisoner of War (POW)
- Remembrance
- Second World War
- St. Valery - The Battle of St. Valery
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- War