Dunkirk East Mole Stone - Southwell Minster - Southwell, Nottinghamshire - World War II Memorials / Monuments on Waymarking.com

Stone of remembrance taken from the East Mole at Dunkirk by the Dunkirk Veterans Association (visit link) ,bearing a carved inscription, Southwell Minster.

Inscription -
1940 DUNKERQUE 1990
"EAST MOLE STONE"
OBTAINED BY THE
1940 DUNKIRK VETERANS ASSOCIATION
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE BRANCH
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

"The evacuation of British and French troops at Dunkirk was largely accomplished through the use of two long concrete jetties that protected the beach. The name of those structures? Moles. (The word has roots in middle French and Latin.)

During the Battle of Dunkirk, the harbor was rendered unusable by German bombing, and the big boats couldn’t get to the soldiers on the beach, which meant evacuation initially progressed very slowly. But then the Royal Navy Captain W.G. Tennant came up with the idea of evacuating the soldiers off the East Mole, which had deep water on each side of it.

And it worked brilliantly. In the end, only about a third of the soldiers were evacuated from the beach itself; about 200,000 were evacuated off the East Mole. If you visit Dunkirk today, you can walk on a concrete section of the mole, though the wooden part was lost in a storm in the 1970s."

SOURCE - (visit link)

Further reading about the Dunkirk evacuation - (visit link)

Date of Dedication: 10/01/1990 Property Permission: Public Website for Waymark: [Web Link] Location of waymark: Southwell Minster Southwell, Nottinghamshire England NG25 0HD Commemoration: Evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940 Access instructions: Not listed Access times: Not listed

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