51st Acted as rearguard at Dunkirk allowing 338,000 British & French troops to be Evacuated back to UK,
Of the Britons left behind by Operation Dynamo, 11,000 died and 40,000 were captured and imprisoned.
(8,000 Scots soldiers were taken prisoner of war at the northern town of St Valery-en-Caux.)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/news/Tears-for-Dunkirk39s-doughty-Scottish.6326114.jp
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