Summary Part of France at War week on WW2TV Iain Miskimmin is a Military reservist of 30 years, a digital engineer and amateur historian, as well as the wearer of a whole raft of other hats. He has been researching this specific action of the Royal Scot Fusiliers in May 1940 for 16 years. Starting with a few clues he has reconstructed, through interviews with survivors, relatives and locals, private diaries and maps the actions of this unit for the 3 days they stood along the Ypres Comines canal to buy time for the Dunkirk evacuation to happen. "Tell Brigade I'm not going a foot back!" On the evening of May 27the 1940 orders were received that the Royal Scots Fusiliers position must be held at all costs for the next 24 hours, to enable the rest of the B.E.F. to get away.

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