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DUNEDIN BOY S RETURN "Thank God we’ve got a Navy!” Dunkirk changed the sly jest into a fervent prayer of thanksgiving so far as the Army was concerned. The work of the Navy in that engagement wilt be written in letters of gold on the pages of history. First of Dunedin’s own boys to return Dunkirk is Able-seaman John M'Kenzie. 11. N. After an absence of 11 months from his home, he arrived back at the beginning of the week. True to the tradition of the Silent Service, Able-seaman M'Kenzie, interviewed by the ‘Star,’ had nothing to say regarding his or any other part in the Dunkirk epic, or indeed on any other part of his intensive service. His opinions must he respected. Dunkirk was no picnic, and his one urgent need at the moment is that his memories of the engagement be obliterated. Since his return, friends and acquaintances, with the best of intentions, have been probing his memories. They will prove his best friends who help him, for the time that he is here, to enjoy the present and forget the past.
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Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 8
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187BACK FROM DUNKIRK Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 8
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