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I was in Dover at the time of the evacuation from Dunkirk.
My mother was cooking and making tea for the troops non-stop.
I was taking trays of tea to the survivors, I saw a load of soldiers asleep in the back of a lorry.
I tried to wake one up when another soldier said to me “They don’t want any tea — they are all dead.�

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