'No cheese after dinner' : with the 51st Highland Division from Normandy to Poland and back via hell 1940-1945 /
Kennington, Fred.
Stockport, Cheshire : F.L. Kennington
c2004.
"Fred Kennington recounts the personal stories of some of the 7th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, a Territorial Army unit from Berwick upon Tweed and the surrounding area, who were called up at the start of the war, were captured in France, and spent most of the war in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany and Poland; the author's brother being one of them. The accounts start with mobilisation, posting to France, their surrender after the evacuation of Dunkirk, continuing with the forced marches and other journeys through France, Germany, and Poland to the camps. The working and 'living' conditions of these camps are described together with the deaths, escapes, and eventually liberation, and the return home; not by truck or bus, but by marching back through despoiled countryside with severe privations - the 'death marches' for some"--Parish Chest.
"Fred Kennington recounts the personal stories of some of the 7th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, a Territorial Army unit from Berwick upon Tweed and the surrounding area, who were called up at the start of the war, were captured in France, and spent most of the war in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany and Poland; the author's brother being one of them. The accounts start with mobilisation, posting to France, their surrender after the evacuation of Dunkirk, continuing with the forced marches and other journeys through France, Germany, and Poland to the camps. The working and 'living' conditions of these camps are described together with the deaths, escapes, and eventually liberation, and the return home; not by truck or bus, but by marching back through despoiled countryside with severe privations - the 'death marches' for some"--Parish Chest.
Great Britain. Army. Division, 51st (Highland)
Great Britain. Army. Division, 51st (Highland)
World War (1939-1945)
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
Soldiers
Military campaigns.
Soldiers.