In My Father's Footsteps

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It was the 4th June 1940 that my father’s regiment, the Royal Signals saw action just forward of Lille-Roubaix in France. Three men were killed, seven wounded and one man went missing during the withdrawal.Although not documented, my father could well have been that missing soldier for I know that on the 12th June 1940 my father was captured by the Germans at St Valery trying to get to England in a small boat, he and his companions came under fire and my father sustained injuries sufficient to see him admitted to the military hospital in Lille prior to his transportation to the P.O.W. camps at Lamsdorf in Poland.In May 2010 to mark the 70th anniversary of my fathers capture, I travelled to France and followed the route that the Royal Signals took from Cherbourg via Laval to Lille. In Lille I visited the military hospital where my father recovered from his injuries. I then made my way to modern day Lambinovice in Poland, site of the Lamsdorf P.O.W. camps.In March 2012, I returned to France to re-visit places from my original journey, and to visit other areas not seen in 2010.This 58,000 word book is my account of my original journey in 2010, and my return visit in 2012. It is part biography, part travelogue but,above all a tribute to my father.Robert M Lidster