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The last act of the drama of the retreat from the Somme by one battalion of the Gordons in France in June, 1940, is reached. All around them was in confusion, but they, though fighting now in isolated units cut off from their supplies and their companions, had but one thought-to do their duty till their last ammunition was gone.
6. Gordons Fought As St Valery Was Blazing
St Valery was ablaze. Its streets were crowded with refugees and troops. Thousands of stragglers still poured along the road on the top of the cliffs.
Part of the battalion was defending a chateau. It was filled with men, many of them wounded. The medical officer set out with an ambulance to take some of them back to St Valery, but he had not gone half-a-mile when a bomb landed near his car. He is believed to have been killed.
As no more ambulances were available, a truck had to be used to take the remainder of the wounded back to the town. A truck, however, was likely to be machine-gunned, or shell- ed. So with much in- genuity the stretcher- bearers transformed the truck into an ambu lance. They procured a large white table cloth from the chateau. It was spread over the side of the truck. Then with red eiderdown they made a large red cross.
They succeeded in get- ting through.
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All the way back across the Bresle and the Bethune the stretcher- bearers and M.O. worked heroically to get the wounded back in face of almost insuperable.difficul, ties. One party with an ambulance reached Fe- camp and only escaped two minutes before the Germans entered the town. They made their way to Le Havre, where the wounded were taken off.
Nothing reflected the spirit of the battalion more than the fortitude of the wounded. They knew that the odds against their getting away were tre- mendous.
Perhaps the words of Sgt. Pettigrew of the transport, who handled many of them, form the best tributes "They all
· had cheery faces. There was no moaning. Their only thought was that they had done something before they had been got. The severely wounded were
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The remnant of the bat- talion was still fighting against overwhelming odds. The end of their heroic resistance, how- ever, was only a few hours away. Promised supplies of ammunition had failed to arrive. The men were worn out by marching and want of sleep and food. But their spirit was still undaunted.
German tanks had swept up through Rouen and along the Seine. They were at the very gates of St Valery, where the streets were packed with French and British trans- port and seething masses of straggling troops and refugees. The German artillery had come within range of the town, which was soon ablaze.
Through the congestion the battalion transport, which had been separated from the unit for about eight hours, was trying to establish contact. Only four trucks with the re- serve food supply and the Bren gun carrier were left.
In farmhouses and woods several miles from the town, the Gordons were making their last stand on the morning of June 11. Each company was now fighting as separate unit.
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At their head on a motor cycle rode. Lt Hay seeking a crowded away through the
streets to reach the men with food. In the end he got into and drove country open against the swarm of refu gees. German tanks could be seen in the distance, and shells were falling all around.
Still he pressed on and reached the battalion, only to share the fate of most of them and become a prisoner of war.
All the trucks, however, did not get through. In one narrow street in St Valery the Bren gun carrier was jammed in the traffic behind a huge motor lorry. By the time he had extricated his carrier, Sgt. Preston had lost touch with the others. As he sought another exit from the town he met Sgt. Littlejohn with one of the trucks.
Sgt. Littlejohn told him that the Division had been sur- rounded and the order was. "every man for himself."
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Some of the men had managed to get clear and make their way to St Valery and Le Havre.
Turning his carrier, Sgt. Preston made for the harbour but found it in flames. So he set out castward along the eliff, picking up some men be longing to another regiment on the way.
After searching the cliffs for half the night for a place where they could get down to the
shore they eventually reached Veules," where they destroyed the carrier. Sgt. Preston scrambled down the face of the cliff and swam out to a small rowing boat which he brought back to the beach,
With his crew and the men he had picked up he rowed out to a steamer lying some dis- tance offshore.
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Dive-bombers stantly attacking the ships waiting to take the men off, and they saw one vessel hit by a heavy bomb. It sank in a few minutes.
It became impossible for ships to approach the shore be- cause German artillery was now mounted on the cliffs. But the ship which they had boarded remained in the vicinity all day and all night picking up survivors.
The fire from the shore be-" came so hot, however, that a destroyer raced along the coast laying down a smoke
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On the morning of June 13 they sailed for Southampton.
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There is a postscript to this story. While the battalion was rotiring towards St Va- lory, reinforcements were be- ing rushed from England. They reached Cherbourg too late, and were sent back to Southampton. Actually they crossed the Channel again and were brought back a second time.
With these reinforcemonts the battalion has been re- formed in Scotland. To-day it is on guard on the coast; watching for the threatencă invasion. It is waiting for. the day when it can repay the Germans for St Valery.
In the 61st are Seaforths, Argyll and Sutherlands, Camerons, Gordons, the Black Watch-the cream of the Highland regiments. They draw their men from the mountains, from the Gaelic- speaking west coast, from the granite country of Aberdeen, from the wooded hills of Perth, and from the back streets of Glasgow and Dun- deo.
It did not need a fiery cross to bring these men at the run to join the new 51st. They have trained and drilled na only men with a calling in their hearts and a rendezvous to make can drill and train..
...The 51st has ́ a rendezvOUR with the Hun-and is praying that it will be very soon!
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