- Contributed by
- Durhamlass
- People in story:
- Capt Leslie Proud
- Location of story:
- Dunkirk
- Background to story:
- Army
- Article ID:
- A2354672
- Contributed on:
- 26 February 2004
My father (in the 6th DLI) left Dunkirk aboard a minesweeper on June 2nd. He arrived home on June 8th..
We have what seems to be a typed carbon copy of the Battalion War Diary from May 1st to June 2nd.
I was told that when he got home, he weighed 7 stone — he’d lost 3 stone. I was born 9 months later on March 8th 1941.
Was there a ‘baby-bulge’? Are there lots like me?
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