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Lieutenant Keith Dundas.
2/11th Battalion training program, July 1940. Keith Dundas was part of C Company.
Men of the 2/11th Battalion Anti-Aircraft Platoon, commanded by Lt Keith Dundas. AWM.

I watched… its leap-frogging withdrawal with magnificent coolness and precision, one section blazing away at the Germans on the hill and across the road while the other streaked past it to the next patch of shrubbery to repeat the process.

Lt Colonel Ralph Honner
Aerial view of Oflag X-C.
Oflag VI-B
Oflag VII-B Church service.

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