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Gardening Advice at Dunkirk

A Postal Worker with the BEF in 1940 In my hand I hold a small pocket diary for the year 1940, printed for gardeners by the Royal Horticultural Society. Its pages offer advice on pruning fruit trees, planting seedlings, and preparing the soil for spring. Yet in the blank spaces between that advice the diary records something very different: the…

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