Rearguard cuttings France 1940

[51highland]

Some more cuttings about the rear-guard actions and the eventual surrender of 51st HD at St Valery.

[Owen]

Here's a fuller account of what 2/Lt Hay did from Saul David's book page 204..

Well I spoke fairly adequate French so we discussed this and I said, "It's nothing to do with me. I can't do anything about it."
He insisited , and I lost my temper so I walloped him with my revolver knocking him down into the mud in the side of the harbour. What could I do? I was a small cog and it wasn't in my power to surrender the Division-I didn't want to anyway. I don't know what happened to him, I suppose I was fairly hyped up with pressure of the situation and when he came to ask me to do something so stupid I saw red.