Fighting
As part of the retreat of the British Expeditionary Force towards Dunkirk, the 48th Division was holding the road which runs southward from Bergues through Wormhoudt, Cassel and Hazebrouck to delay the German advance.
British units at Wormhoudt were overrun by advancing German forces. Having exhausted their ammunition supplies, the troops at this point surrendered assuming that they would be taken prisoner according to the Geneva Convention.
Read more about this topic: Wormhoudt Massacre
Famous quotes containing the word fighting:
“It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement, as all boys kill cats.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pike’s in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade.””
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)