HERO OF CALAIS
OFFICER WHO RESCUED SURVIVORS. AWARDED MILITARY CROSS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 1. Among the decorations awarded to the officers and men of the B.E.F. appears a military cross given to Captain Francis Robinson, Royal Artillery. After taking a leading part in the defence of Calais, this officer successfully engaged an enemy battery with a 12pounder gun mounted on a trawler in Calais harbour, fighting the gun till all ammunition was exhausted. Captain Robinson look the trawler to Dover but returned next day with two armed yachts. He landed a naval party under enemy fire and succeeded in embarking three officers and 55 men of the Calais garrison. The official account concludes: “As no fire could then be heard from the citadel. Captain Robinson returned to England."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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130HERO OF CALAIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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