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257192 Tpr. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou Bristih Army 4th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment from:Edinburgh, Scotland Andrew Evinou was a Trooper with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army during WW2. He served in France as part of the Eighth Army and was rescued from the beach at Dunkirk. As their ship was leaving the dock, tea was announced down below deck. My dad never turned down a cuppa. While he was below, a Messerschmidt riddled the deck, where my dad had been sitting. A young man who was resting his head on my dad's knapsack was killed. Dad couldn't retrieve it until after they docked in England, and after the ship had cleared the deck of the dead. This had to be done before allowing any waiting family to go onto the dock. After a weekend's leave, dad was sent to North Africa. The picture I am sharing was taken in the African Desert. It was featured on the cover page of a Mid Eastern publication, called Parade. The picture was lost to our family. A year after my dad died, I travelled to the London Newspaper Museum, from Canada, in search of it. Fortunately I was able to find it, I held it close to my heart and cried. That picture as you can imagine, has become a treasure. In June of 1942, my dad was captured at Tobruk, where their tanks were an easy defeat for the superior enemy tanks. Dad was a PoW, from then till the end of the war, and was listed as Missing in Action for a year. He was first a Prisoner with the Italians, then with the Germans. He spent time at Stalag V111C and worked in the coal mines as part of a Work Group. He participated in and survived the Great March. Andrew died in October 2006. Lest We Forget Janet Thompson Add to this record.  Related Content: 4th Royal Tank Regiment Battle of France and The Low Countries 1940 Operation Dynamo - The Evacuation from Dunkirk and nearby Beaches Western Desert Campaign in North Africa Siege of Tobruk Stalag 8C Prisoner of War Camp POW Death March, Germany 1945 Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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