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Tommy Butterworth

Томми Баттерворт

1918 – 1991

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Biography

Private Tommy Butterworth was among the Manchester Regiment soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk in June 1940. After wading chest-deep into the sea under Stuka dive-bomber attacks, he was pulled aboard a Thames pleasure steamer. He later fought in Normandy and across Northwest Europe, ending the war in Hamburg. He told his family he never forgot the sight of the oil-black water and burning ships at Dunkirk, or the kindness of the civilian boat crews who risked everything to rescue them.

Biography (Russian)

Рядовой Томми Баттерворт был среди солдат Манчестерского полка, эвакуированных из Дюнкерка в июне 1940 года. Он позже сражался в Нормандии и по всей Северо-Западной Европе, закончив войну в Гамбурге.