Dunkirk Survivor`s at Dover 1940

• Guest 690

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  14 September 2010     23:1170755
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  Yet another picture I came across recently, and showing personel evacuated from Dunkirk and pictured at Dover in 1940. Part of Dover Marine station is pictured on the extreme right. So many threads on old Dover in picture`s, I couldn`t find an appropriate one for this, but maybe Kath or Paul could add something to it.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  14 September 2010     23:1470759
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  i wonder if the young chaps in that picture wondered how lucky they were at the time?
  
  probably not. just a game for an eighteen year old then .
• Guest 649

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  14 September 2010     23:1670761
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  Colin it is very good to see what it was like then,well done hope to see alot more of them.
• Guest 700

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  15 September 2010     19:5370976
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  Can't add anything to the picture Colin, except it shows the Prince of Wales Pier and breakwater, and cranes on the admiralty pier.
  Here is another picture of Dunkirk survivors at Dover:
  

  
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  15 September 2010     19:5570980
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  And here is another of Dunkirk survivors at Dover:
  

  
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• Guest 672

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  15 September 2010     20:0670986
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  The first set of tracks in the first picture are for platform 3.
  1 and 2 outside, 3 4 5 and 6 being inside. just to the right of the cart is where the old BTP station was.
  
  Cracking photos, all taken from the station side.
  grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
• Guest 645

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  15 September 2010     20:2270990
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  There is still a Dunkirk veteran living in Dover.He is 92yrs old.He was also at D-day +1 and in the North African Campaign. He prefers to keep quiet about his wartime exploits often stating that those that make the biggest fuss were never involved or even in the War.
  
  A real cravat wearing,smartly dressed gentlemen. He went on to have a super career after the war as an architect
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  15 September 2010     20:2970993
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  i bet those service personnel thought dover was the most beaujtiful town in the world when they landed.
  
  marek
  
  you are so right about that, most prefer just to forget those times.
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  15 September 2010     20:3670996
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  Like any job in life, wartime or peacetime, some like to talk about old times, some don`t.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.