STAND AT CALAIS
SMALL BAND OF HEROIC SURVIVORS. VISITED BY THE KING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 18. His Majesty the King yesterday inspected troops of the Southern Command and talked at length with an officer, two non-commissioned officers and seven men who were the sole survivors of a battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps after the memorable Calais stand. The battalion has now been reformed and fully trained.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 5
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70STAND AT CALAIS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 5
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