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By Lichty The Epic of The "51st" "DETTOL'
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For the first time it is possible to present the epic story of the part played by the Gordon Highlanders in the Battle of France-not in the formal language of the official War Office report—but in the living impressiona of the men who suffered and survived in that sombre drama of men against metal.
With this first instalment opens a narrative which will tell all the varying fortunes and undying heroism of Gor- dons' battalions in the 51th Division.
This chapter rings up the curtain and tells how North- cast lads entered the Maginot Line on the que of the blitz- krieg ... The others will tell of deeds that will live as long as our race endures.
I: The Gordons' Baptism of Fire
From the crowded deck of the ship taking them home to Britain, a handful of Gordon Highlanders who had escaped from Veules looked back anxiously at the cliffs of St Valery-en-Caux,
There the battle which had raged with unbelievable fero- city was now dying down.
In the waning light of that evening in June, 1940, they could still see the flashes of guns and shells.
They wondered how many of their pals had got away in time. St Valery was ablaze
Fleeing refugees and straggling columns of French soldiers were swarming along the roads and through the burning town.
The narrow streets were jammed with transport, French and British.
Men were clambering down the face of the cliffs to wait for ships that never came. Dive bombers screamed down out_of_the_sky_to_destroy. those ships. German artillery mounted on the cliffs flung their projectiles at every ship that appeared on the horizon.
They wondered, too, if Lt B. P. Hay, son of Major Mal- colm V. Hay of Seaton, had succeeded in his courageous effort to get food through to the battalion still fighting in a wood several miles from St Valery. They had last seen him struggling against the tide of refugees outside the town.
Was it possible that only R week had gone by since the battalion drove the Germans from Le Grand Bois de Cam- born at the point of the bayonet in one of the most dashing actions in the history of the regiment?
Since then they had shown Incredible heroism against overwhelming odds, marching by night, fighting by day. without sleep, with their flight- ing spirit unimpaired by the ceaseless pounding by artil- lery, by the tank attacks and the screaming ferocity of the dive bombers.
Farther south, the German tanks had come sweeping up through Rouen and along the Seinc. Now the battalion, with other units of the 51st Division, was trapped in the centre of that inferno of shells and bombs over there on the cliffs...
A destroyer raced past tho ship, laying down a curtain of · smoke which blotted out the tragic scene.
Now the picture turns back to Aldershot in the Into Sop tember of 1980-the begin- ning of the great adventure.
Still in their kilts, the bat- talion marched off on the first stage of their journey to France, singing the popular songs of the moment, and be- lieving that, like their fathers in 1914, they would be thrown
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into the forefront of the light- ing within a few days. Near- ly eight months were to clapse, however, before they made their first contact with the Germans,
The Bren gun carriers had gone on before them and were moving on to French soil at Brest when the battalion was sailing from Southampton for Cherbourg, which was reached on September 22.
From the coast they travelled by train to St Christoph, In the heart of the cognac country, lo, stay there for len days The picasant country folk gave them as warm and hospi lable a welcome as they would have given to their own kin. Cog nac, new to the palates of most of then, became the favourite freshment of the battalion. Ona gnarled old Frenchman they met like to recount his reminiscences of the days when St Christoph was filled with American troops in the last war and how the Doughboys→→ Goddams he called them cleaned up four years' stock of cognac. It was a challenge which the battalion could scarcely meet in ten short days in Army pay.
But the Cognac stocks were con siderably depleted before they moved 10 Neuville St Vanst on Vimy Ridge, where all the mem. bers of the battalion went to see the Canadian War Memorial.
were
dug and a cable fald from Allennes to Arras before the bnt-
tallon went to Steenwerck to do a lour of duty in the blockhouses, Steenwerck is only a few miles north of Armentieres.
Towards the end of April camo the news they had all walted Im- patiently for nearly seven months. The division was going into the Maginot Line.
It must be remembered that in the spring of this year the very name of Maginot Line had a magic ring about it. Journalists who paid a single visit, to one of the forts were decorated with the Ma- ginot medal. So the prospect of taking up positions in the famous defence system and making con- tact with the Germans sent a thrill through the whole battalion,
Their journey south took them past Verdun, another magle nanie, to billets at a place called Geun- ange. A week juter they marched to Vekering, where they stayed for a night, in an old Gernian barracks with spring beds-a luxury for the troops after months of sleeping in barns and halls.
At dusk on the following night a few days before the blitzkrieg started-the- battalion moved up the line to relieve the 130th French Infantry Regiment at Remeling, elght iniles in front of the Maginst Line and some distance south of the Luxemburg border.
Darkness had fallen before they reached the village. Shells were dropping in the woods around them. It was the first time most of the men
had been under fire, On the way up, as they marched silently forward in the cover of the trees, they had a and
This was really a halt on the way to the Belgian frontier where they spent a severe winter constructing fortifications and laying telephone cables. Sometimes they billeted in farmhouses and barns and were ankle-deep in "glaur"; sometimes they had halls houses in villages as billets.
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Most of the winter was passed at Templeuve and Cysolng. hard against the frontier. They were at Templeuve when General Gort *paid them a visit. They still had their klits, and it was not without some hard feelings that they gave them up Inter for battle-dress, though the advantages of the "rom- pers" became apparent when they Into the Maginot Line with its went abundance of barbed wire.
King visited them ot
The Cysoing.
This was a particularly happy on because Ills Majesty's was planned by one of own officers, Major Douglas Gordon, who was afterwards killed in the Battle of le Grand Bois de Cambron. Major Gordon had pre- viously been on Lord Gort's staff.
Naturally, the
the King's arrival was not announced beforehand, but the unexpectedness of the visit only increased the enthusiastic welcome which the battalion
guvo to His Majesty.
That was in the dead of winter. Eight miles out of Cysoing in March occurred one of those rare events in the history of a regiment --the meeting of two battalions of the regiment on the march, As they halted and the two command- officers cordially greeted ench
the men Iraternised, looking out for old friends of civil life and old comrades with whom they and previously soldiered.
Reluctantly they parted. This battalion Inted controse story is being re- on its way to Al-
lennetinued and the other
battalion moved on to Cysolng. By way of welcoming the regulars to
the Highland Division a "smoker" was organised. It Was A convivial evening in the traditional style, with men from two battali ons of the regiment singing songs, reciting and generally adding to the galety of the company.ka
But next morning it was back to hard work, Moro; fortifications
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of ceriness, a feeling of entering an unreal world. This ecriness "was helghtened by the wan light of the moon and the terrifying crash with which shells explode among trees.
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Battalion Headquarters was cslu- blished in a clearing about half-a- mille behind Remeling. The village itself was occupied by Headquar- ters Company.
Striving to make as little noise
as possible, the other companies crept out to their posts spread fan- wise in the woods in front of Remeling. The battalion held Heydwald and Grossenwald, two woods retaining their German names though now French terri-
The Germans were about 200 yards away in the Jungwald and
tory
In the village of Waldwisse.
These posta reminded some of the men of the stockades of Red Indian days.
They were dotted all over the woods, surrounded by large hoops of French barbed wire, in a de- sign which caused one of the of- Acers to designate them "Froger- ies," because they were con- structed in the manner of French military entanglements. Each platoon held a "stockade."
Out in No-man's-Land_stood a strangely allent bolween the Batting- Petitwalscher. It come 10 be
and the
known cide Village the troops as "Su "A strong point old soldiers would call an
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post--was established
the houses. Là. Rhodes's
brigado Aghting patrol, which gained a great reputation in the next few weeks, escorted a platoon of "C" Company out to the post. There they had to stay until re- lleved without communication with the rest of the battalion except by telephone.
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