INDIAN VETERANS
BRAVE PART IN DUNKIRK WITHDRAWAL INSPECTION BY SECRETARY OF STATE. GALLANTRY COMMENDED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 8. Members of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps who escaped after a 36mile night march to Dunkirk, -whence they evacuated with the 8.E.F., were inspected today by Mr L. S. Amery, Secretary for India. The chief regret of these men, many of whom are veterans with more than 20 years’ service, is that they had to leave behind their mules.
Mr Amery, who was accompanied by the Duke of Devonshire. Under-Secre-tary for India, paid a tribute to the behaviour of the corps under fire. He congratulated them on the splendid work they had done through the winter and in "these last difficult days.’’ He added: “In spite of the discouragement of the retreat and the difficulties of embarkation, you have come back in the best or good heart.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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