A Family History of the Illustrious, Notorious and Eccentric Lloyds of Birmingham, Brigstock and Pipewell Hall - Flipbook - Page 156
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anding officer.
first taken to Wicksteed Amusement Park in Kettering by Uncle Kit. The culminating excitement
brother
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Dunkirk
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t did not embark until May 31, but nothing was seen or heard of him in the interval. We did not reassemble here
week later, and when he did not arrive it was a great blow as I had hoped he had found his way home individually.
ry sorry not to have written to you sooner, but until a few days ago stragglers have been coming in and I still hoped
ht come. Dunkirk was continually bombed and I am very much afraid that Kit must have either been killed or else
wounded and left in hospital. Should it be the latter there would have been British MOs left with them as prisoners.
him very much, as he was a cheerful and very gallant officer and the most useful MT subaltern that I have met. You
y sincere sympathy and the sympathy of the soldiers who were under him."
