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Sgt. Philip William Joseph Beckett
British Army Border Regiment
from:Liverpool
My Dad, Philip Beckett, having been recalled to the colours was with the BEF in Belguim where he was wounded in the lower back by German Machine gun fire. He was then carried on a stretcher all the way to Dunkirk, where he was taken into the care of a French medical unit. He was eventually removed back home via the famous mole, being literally thrown onto a Navy vessel which lay to for barely a minute. He spent over three months in an Edinburgh Hospital before returning to his units HQ at Carlisle Castle; there he met my Mother Sally Gallefor who was working in the Irish Gate Tavern.