Pte. James Berry Ritchie
Btitish Army Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
The only information I can supply is that my father James Ritchie was a veteran of Dunkirk. He often spoke of a "McGinty" from Clydebank and another soldier who came from Manchester and had been employed by a Manchester newspaper prior to to the war.
The first ship that rescued my Father from the beach was sunk and he was eventually rescued and brought home having inhaled fuel oil from the wreckage of the first ship. He was pensioned out due to his injuries in 1943 and died in 1999 at the age of 80 years within Erskine Hospital for ex service personnel.
The photograph is my father and 3 other comrades, two of which have crosses marked on their arm. I believe they were killed in action but I do not know their names or location of their deaths. After Dunkirk my Father's Regiment was sent to India.
