Cooks stopped shooting pigs to conserve ammunition for the Nazi variety, and the batmen "watched their front" from 10 a.m. Everyone saw plenty - an S.S. battalion in column of fours, the swarms of enemy tanks. Then the reinforcements arrived - a 25-millemetre anti-tank gun with a team of four officers - and four shells! The general situation was now rapidly deteriorating. Regular contacts were impossible due to enemy armour and infantry penetrating in all directions; information was non-existent, and before long headquarters, battalions and companies, and platoons were surrounded, cut off, and broken up. Much of the rear area was already either in German control or menaced by the presence of enemy armour. Out of this chaos those who could fell back towards the coast at Dunkirk almost by instinct … The fate of the 6th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in France in May 1940; the regimental history refers. An inter-war North-West Frontier pair awarded to Lance-Corporal M. Bradley, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who was posted missing in France in May 1940 but afterwards confirmed as a P.O.W India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (2977831 Pte. M. Bradley, A. & S.H.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-39 (2977831 Pte. M. Bradley, A. & S.H.), good very fine or better (2)
