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[Paul S.]

I've heard of men stripping down to their underwear at Dunkirk, although many were saved by the Mole, the concrete structure that acted as a makeshift "jetty" and didn't need to enter the water provided that their ship wasn't sunk by the Luftwaffe or by a mine on the way home.

My mother well remembers, to this day, seeing many British soldiers, at the time of the Dunkirk evacuation, on trains and at stations in Yorkshire. She was a child at the time but was shocked to see the state of them; they were covered in mud and dirt and many hadn't been able to shave for days. They obviously hadn't had a chance to clean up after returning from France. She felt very sorry for them as did most other members of the British public.

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We had a neighbour in the late 1950s who was a Dunkirk veteran. He told my dad that it was quite literally off the docks and straight on to trains and away from the channel ports as soon as they landed in England.

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