Dunkirk & De Panne. October 2006

Owen · 29-10-2006, 10:03 PM

Here are some photos I took on our trip last week.
My wife's Grandad, pre-War Regular in Royal Signals, was evacuated off the Mole.
These first ones were taken at De Panne.

Owen · 29-10-2006, 10:06 PM

Dunkirk Memorial and Cemetery.

Owen · 29-10-2006, 10:10 PM

Some more from the memorial and cemetery.

Owen · 29-10-2006, 10:12 PM

Dunkirk town memorial and The Mole.

52nd Airborne · 30-10-2006, 01:45 AM

for sharing your photos Owen!

spidge · 30-10-2006, 05:59 AM

Great shots, thanks Owen.

von Poop · 30-10-2006, 10:14 AM

Cheers chap.
The time is definitely coming for me to get around to visiting these places.

Peter Clare · 30-10-2006, 10:50 AM

many thanks for the pics.

Millsy · 02-11-2006, 01:54 PM

Cheers Owen. Nice pics.
I've got some BEF related questions brewing; maybe you will be able to help me with them soon!

This researching the past business sends you all over the place!!!!

Millsy

Owen · 22-11-2006, 10:29 AM

Just reading "Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division" by Saul David.
Excellent book.
Checking the named casualties mentioned in book on CWGC. Alot are on Dunkirk Memorial.
Wish I'd read it before I'd gone, then could have looked for the names there.
Bad planning.......again.

30-10-2006, 01:45 AM	#5 (permalink)
52nd Airborne Very Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone Posts: 1,305	for sharing your photos Owen! __________________ *52nd Airborne.* Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

30-10-2006, 05:59 AM	#6 (permalink)
spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,055	Great shots, thanks Owen. __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm

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30-10-2006, 10:14 AM	#7 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,497	Cheers chap. The time is definitely coming for me to get around to visiting these places.

30-10-2006, 10:50 AM	#8 (permalink)
Peter Clare Legendary Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland Posts: 5,667	many thanks for the pics.

02-11-2006, 01:54 PM	#9 (permalink)
Millsy Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Newmarket Posts: 47	Cheers Owen. Nice pics. I've got some BEF related questions brewing; maybe you will be able to help me with them soon! This researching the past business sends you all over the place!!!! Millsy

22-11-2006, 10:29 AM	#10 (permalink)
Owen Grumpy Old Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 9,485	Just reading "Churchill's Sacrifice of the Highland Division" by Saul David. Excellent book. Checking the named casualties mentioned in book on CWGC. Alot are on Dunkirk Memorial. Wish I'd read it before I'd gone, then could have looked for the names there. Bad planning.......again.

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