Dunkirk - Info required

[Carrie Meerten]

Does anyone know anything about Dunkirk? or where I might find some history info on it?

Have heard a bit about my ancestor on this trip - apparantly he was aboard a ship that went to get soldiers out but the ship was mined and sunk.

[Ladkyis]

Did you google? it comes up with loads of hits


Ann
ps. my Dad was at Dunkirk and when my daughter was old enough to notice things she asked him what one of his medals was for. He replied "That's my Dunkirk Harriers medal, everyone got one of those for runnig the hundred yards dash down the beach." My daughter was quite a lot older before she discovered that the "hundred yards dash" as he called it was not just a running race.

[Carrie Meerten]

yes, i had initially but just realised that i had typed in dukirk, i had left out the 'n' |oopsredfa

have now down it correctly thanks. got hits as well.

[emanday]

My Dad, (Royal Artillery), was lifted off the beach at Dunkirk by a small boat that transferred him to one of the larger ones further offshore. That one took him and many others back to England. He always said he wished he'd taken note of the names of these, but it was "a wee bit too busy".

As your Dad was one of the brave and selfless people who risked their lives saving the troops, please accept on his behalf my most grateful thanks. I'd not be here if it weren't for folk like him.

[Carrie Meerten]

Thankyou very much for your comment. I was actually my Great Uncle (I think) not my dad. Glad your father made it out. Lovely to hear things like that. I am sure that none of them thinked twice about helping, they just did it !!

[margaretparkin]

my father survived dunkirik at 19 he was a bumpkin fron norfolk and i believe it was a fowershed in his life