Re: "The Heroes of St Valery" - 51st Highland Division at St Valéry-en-Caux

["anderson whittle" <andwhit@iafrica.com>]

Iain

Dont' forget the South Africans, Aussies, New Zealanders
Indians,the Russians in the East, and others - probably a list as long as
the Templar
properties in Scotland.

Mark Anderson
Cape Town

----- Original Message -----
From: <Iain.Laird@btinternet.com>
To: <sinclair@matrix.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:34 PM
Subject: "The Heroes of St Valery" - 51st Highland Division at St
Valéry-en-Caux


>
> Following earlier postings, I have found further information and have
posted
> it all in one page on our website.  There is a hyperlink from the
frontpage.
>  One of the veterans of St Valery, Colonel Sir Robert 'Raas' Macrae, a
Seaforth
> Highlander, had a major part in restoring St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney,
linked
> to Fjaere, described in John Sinclair Quarterman's website, and not far
from
> Arendal in Southern Norway where I am for a few days. There is amazing
synchronicity
> all around us.
>
> This relates in part to the question of how the Second World War was won.
Britain
> stood alone in 1940, but our allies from the occupied Nations flocked to
our
> shores.  Norwegians, French, Poles, Dutch, Belgians, Czechs to name but a
few
> joined the ranks of the British Services.  But we would not have won
without
> the enormous effort and sacrifice of our US and Canadian cousins who came
far
> from home for a second time in the 20th Century to fight and many to die
for
> our freedom.  Lest we forget.
>
> Yours aye
>
> Iain Laird
>
> www.iain.laird.btinternet.co.uk
>
>
>
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