MEN OF THE CALAIS DIVERSIONARY FORCE

Early day motion 39, tabled 13 November 2002 by Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 60 members.

That this House wishes to see public recognition for the 3,000 men of the Calais Diversionary Force who went to certain capture or death in May 1940 to allow 240,000 lives to be saved at Dunkirk and for the suffering of those who survived as prisoners of war, force marched hundreds of miles at both ends of the war, inadequately fed, shod and clothed and forced to work in conditions such as the coal mines surrounding Auschwitz.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 30, Labour 15, Conservative 4, Scottish National Party 4, UUP 4, DUP 2, Plaid Cymru 1.