Robin and Sally Young

<p dir="ltr">Robert didn't leave Dunkirk as Churchill needed an army and they were hopelessly outnumbered. He survived in France in 1940 (6, 7 and 8 June) and it became apparent that things were not going well. But the French were planning a huge counter attack.</p><p>The attack was organised by a "grizzled old sergeant with First World War ribbons." </p><p>He watched ships attacked at sea by German aircraft. 24,000 men fought and only 4,000 got out of Havre, and 1,300 got out of Valery and Veules-les-Roses. On the 12th June, he was evacuated off the beach at Veures-les-Roses. </p><p>He served in Africa, then Sicily then back to UK two days after D-Day. </p><p>After the war he left the army as soon as possible and joined the committee to rebuild Germany.</p>