BRITISH MARINE STARTS TO SWIM FROM CALAIS
Refleman Gilbert Lowe, one of the defenders of Calais, who returned to England in a converted hospital ship, relates how a comrade swam for it. "We had left Calais eight miles behind," lie said, "when we overtook a marine swimming for Dover. We pulled him aboard with a rope. He wan still full of beans, although he had been in the water for more than six hours."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 6
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74BRITISH MARINE STARTS TO SWIM FROM CALAIS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 6
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