Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 13 November 2002, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 60 members in total.
MEN OF THE CALAIS DIVERSIONARY FORCE
That this House wishes to see public recognition for the 3,000 men of the Calais Diversionary Force who went to certain capture or death in May 1940 to allow 240,000 lives to be saved at Dunkirk and for the suffering of those who survived as prisoners of war, force marched hundreds of miles at both ends of the war, inadequately fed, shod and clothed and forced to work in conditions such as the coal mines surrounding Auschwitz.
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- Type
- Early day motion
- Reference
- 39
- Session
- 2002-03
- Subjects
- Army Armed conflict World War II Prisoners of war Dunkirk
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