I’ve been thinking about my grandad’s brother, Lawrence Scott, as the anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation has approached. A Corporal in the Royal Corps of Signals, in May 1940 he spent sixty hours waiting to be lifted off the beach at Bray-Dunes, to the east of Dunkirk. Men awaiting evacuation at Bray Dunes, near Dunkirk, … Continue reading “Long enough in the drink…” My great-uncle Lawrence’s experience of the Dunkirk Evacuation