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Pte. Edward William McKimmie
British Army
from:Dundee
Edward McKimmie was working as a moulder when he signed up for the TA. When war broke out he was called up and sent to St Valery with the British Expeditionary Force, where he saw General Victor Fortune go past in a staff car in tears after being told to surrender. Comrades ran past him to throw themselves over the cliffs rather than surrender because of the stories of what Germans did to pow's. My old man tried to stop many from throwing themselves over the top but he ended up a POW for 5 years.
Five of them were marched through Germany to Poland but survived winter by stealing a chateau carpet. Tales of Danzig, surviving and bringing up a family after the war is several stories in themselves.