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Cpl Robert Bruce Pass from Brixton, London of the 1/5th Bn Queen's Royal Regt, photographed with BBC War Correspondent Frank Gillard recording in a slit trench just behind the front

#Dunkirk80 - ‘Hold to the last round, to the last man.’ #OTD the desperate rearguard battle to hold the decreasing perimeter around the town still raged and was only intensifying.

#Dunkirk80 - ‘Hold to the last round, to the last man.’ Like the Norfolk’s at Le Paradis only 24 hours earlier the 2/Royal Warwicks & gunners of the Royal Cheshire’s

#OTD May 1940, No 92 Sqn Leader Roger Bushell was leading his 2nd offensive patrol of the day over France when he and his 12 Spitfires engaged over 40 enemy

Near Arras in the latter stages of #WW1 stood the 8th Casualty Clearing Station - today stands the @CWGC Cemetery of Duisans. It contains a number of those who sadly