GALLANTRY ON KOS
Story Of Evacuation LONDON, October 18. Scores of our men who got awa.y from the Dodecanese island of Kos owe: much to the enterprise of a 22-year-old British sergeant. A correspondent in Cyprus says that for five days and nights this soldier evaded searching German tommygunners, collected seatte’red bands of British troops, and guided them to a rendezvous. A, boat took them off by night. A British North Country regiment wiped out the first wave 01. enemy parachute troops on Kos. Then the regiment fought gamely against heavy odds throughout the fighting ou the island.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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98GALLANTRY ON KOS Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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