Post by Les on Mar 5, 2021 12:06:18 GMT
June 5.
when the full story of @operation dynamo@is told a special tribute will be paid to the Ladies who made sandwiches for the troops. At Headcorn, for example, 50 local girls have been working in 8 hour shifts for nine days and night cutting up 2,500 loaves each day.
When the train from Dover pulled up at this special food stop the men found 19 stoves on the go. Alongside,in open trenches beef was being roasted on stips.
On one evening 5,000 meat pies5,000sausages 5,000 rolls were made and delivered to be eaten by the starving men from Dunkirk beach.
It had been the same in Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, and Redhill.
Soldiers covered in bandages, exhausted by their ordeal, now surrounded by sardines and bully beef, found the energy to cheer the ladies of the WVS, Royary wives, Salvation Army, YMCA, and other civilian volunteers.
Details are emerging of the part 'Southern railway' in 'Operation Dynamo'.A total of620 trains pulling 7,00 coaches moved 319,056 troops. the first train left Dover at 4 am on May 27th and the last at 4 pm yesterday (4 June).
Dover had327 trains and moved 180,982 men, Ramsgate carried783 men on 82 trains, 64 trains were supplied at Folstone, 75 at Margate, and 17 at sheerness. Margate's Dreamland was a first aid and casualty station and at, Dover battalions marched along Snargate street to waiting East Kent buses.
Along the line, many soldiers threw out slips of paper containing their name and address, out of the windows hoping someone would pick them up and inform the next of kin that all was well.
As trains pulled into food stops, people clambered down the embankments hand postcards and pencil to the men so they could send messages to their loved ones. The trainloads of courageous men snatched from te hell of Dunkirk, epitomize the realities of war.
The story of Dunkirk, the bravery, the tragic scenes oof drowning soldiers, the moments when the little ships edged their way along the Prince of Wales Pier, and many more images of grief and triumph will be forever etched on the subconscious memory of a grateful nation.`
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when the full story of @operation dynamo@is told a special tribute will be paid to the Ladies who made sandwiches for the troops. At Headcorn, for example, 50 local girls have been working in 8 hour shifts for nine days and night cutting up 2,500 loaves each day.
When the train from Dover pulled up at this special food stop the men found 19 stoves on the go. Alongside,in open trenches beef was being roasted on stips.
On one evening 5,000 meat pies5,000sausages 5,000 rolls were made and delivered to be eaten by the starving men from Dunkirk beach.
It had been the same in Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, and Redhill.
Soldiers covered in bandages, exhausted by their ordeal, now surrounded by sardines and bully beef, found the energy to cheer the ladies of the WVS, Royary wives, Salvation Army, YMCA, and other civilian volunteers.
Details are emerging of the part 'Southern railway' in 'Operation Dynamo'.A total of620 trains pulling 7,00 coaches moved 319,056 troops. the first train left Dover at 4 am on May 27th and the last at 4 pm yesterday (4 June).
Dover had327 trains and moved 180,982 men, Ramsgate carried783 men on 82 trains, 64 trains were supplied at Folstone, 75 at Margate, and 17 at sheerness. Margate's Dreamland was a first aid and casualty station and at, Dover battalions marched along Snargate street to waiting East Kent buses.
Along the line, many soldiers threw out slips of paper containing their name and address, out of the windows hoping someone would pick them up and inform the next of kin that all was well.
As trains pulled into food stops, people clambered down the embankments hand postcards and pencil to the men so they could send messages to their loved ones. The trainloads of courageous men snatched from te hell of Dunkirk, epitomize the realities of war.
The story of Dunkirk, the bravery, the tragic scenes oof drowning soldiers, the moments when the little ships edged their way along the Prince of Wales Pier, and many more images of grief and triumph will be forever etched on the subconscious memory of a grateful nation.`
photos.app.goo.gl/khVt8x5UCMuFmbGA8