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October 12, 1940
ESCAPE TO
Line because we had no to blazos and found
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idea what was taking place. bicycle shop. It was smash-
Well, one night we came over-
IT TOOK US one month and three days to get from a ridge, and looking down, saw France back to Baling up there we had a conference lachulish.
the Vimy War Memorial: Sit-
and decided to walk by night. I took a chimney stuck for
landmark and we marched ti
we passed it.
direction Then we lost our and had to sleep under a hay- stack. When we woke up in the morning And Inoked Acroga the road we saw a bivouae in. front of us and supply lorries und horses. They were only
At the beginning of May thirty-five of us, fighting two thousand Germans, were defend- ing a small house. We were completely sur- rounded, and on the atty yards away; and there was last day the shells were two-a- coming
penny.
over
Wo were captured about 2.30 in the afternoon and they began to march us north towarda Belgium. One day we were passing through a big town and I Raw that we could havé
but broken away,
we I weren't together and wasn't going without my pals.
Two days after that we come into a village. That night we We slept in a Sports Stadium. made a little shack for ourselves; Sandy Blood (that's what we
Macdonald).
big Willie call Kemp and myself.
We made our plans that night. The French people were pulling pails of water at the roadside for the prisoners as they were marching along. Of course there was always a rush for the
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German cavalry regiment there too. We were in a field of sugar-bect, so we walked along the rows pretending that we
ed as well, but we managed to rig up three bicycles and did about forty kilmetres the first morning we had them.
Then one day as we were looking at the sign-post at a cross-road, a German tame up and asked us for our рарств. When we suld we had none, he sel us to work emptying French Ammunition and equipment that they had captured.
We denied that we were English and spoke Gaelle the whole time, which the Germans couldn't
BALLACHULISH
were picking weeds, and got out of sight.
We were constantly running up against the Germans but we always pretended to he refugees and got away with it. Several French people re- cognised us an British soldiers and gave us food and vin rouge.
*
We were going across the country all the time, but travelling through the cornfields was taking it out of us. By this time we knew it was no good trying to rejoin our unit, so we headed south.
In
One night I tell ill, so we slept pig-sty where there was
understand. They tried eight interpreters on us, but it was no good.
Then they produced a map, and asked us to point out where we came from. Big We put his finger as far north as he could reach. in Russia, and when they saw that, they let us
With a bit of luck and out Gaelle, we went on sauth uniti we came to the Pyreness. Up In the mountains there, we incl muleteer-a young fellow and he led us straight into a Spanish Military Comp.
a
They were qulto decent to us there, but put us back over the frontier into Francs, We walked down the rond about a kilometre and then turned back to get into Spain again.
In which Gaelic Baffles the Nazis
water, and during one rush we three kept on past the polls and round the end of a house Into the garden,
There was a French boy in the garden and he pointed to a bush. We went and hid there and the boy brought us civilinn clothes and a map, and inter his mother came oul with food. We walted there until the column had passed and then set off over the country.
We were trying to get back behind the Maginot
After clean straw, plenty of we lay down, two Jerries came In just looking to see what they could find.
pais pointed at me and My wald: Camarode, nulade," and the Jerries aald: 'Slember, meaning 'Sleep on.' I was better in the morning, and us we were walking along the road a Ger- man lorry stopped, and gave us lift for about eight kilometres, They thought we were Belgian refugees.
Later
came into place that was all smashed
we
A
three
Altogether Wo tried times, and at last succeeded by swimming the river with the Spanish soldiers only a hundred yards away from us. We slept In our wet clothes on a hill-side, In the morning we did some nudist bathing while our clothes deled, and then when we got up to the top of the hill, we suw the port we were looking for. It was a strange foreign-looking port; but when I saw it I was sure that it wouldn't be long before I saw Balachulish again.
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