Harry Thomas Munn - I get a number of requests for help in tracing relatives war history, medal entitlement etc. What's New Bookshop search tips advanced search search engine by freefind. Harry originally wrote the following piece for his Worcestershire Yeomanry Regimental archives.
He had never spoken about the war to either his wife or daughter, and it was only after I had been his son-in-law for a number of years that he started to talk to me about them, mainly over a pint in the pub. I suppose it was a natural extension of our chats about life in the GPO as it was then, BT now where we both worked as telecom engineers. Harry is pictured here at La Panne , Belgium, in The Dunkirk Veterans Association organises a trip there every year where they are greeted as heroes, parade through the town wearing their medals and are guests of the Mayor at banquets and receptions held in their honour.
NB: Sadly is to be the last year and the Dunkirk Veterans Association is to be wound up owing to falling numbers and increasing infirmity. I had a picture of Harry framed with some of his medals for our son Matthew. Our daughter Nicky has his and a pewter model of a Dunkirk soldier.
Harry mentions 19 men by name of whom two were injured and evacuated prior to Cassel and four died in various actions, leaving up to 13 almost certainly captured but only Vic Sutton can be found for certain in the National Archives and one possible Davies. John Lewin of Battery is recorded as having been captured at Dunkirk, the date given is 28th May which may raise a question-mark over the place, but his camp is give as Stalag 6A which is in Hemer, Dortmund in western Germany and a very long way from the Polish camps where all the others were sent so he may have opted to go it alone and nearly made it.
There were units of the SS with the German regular army - Hitler's personal bodyguard in fact - and some of these were so enraged at being thwarted in their attempts to destroy the B.
