Harold Biles

“For 70 years, my father has lived with the shame of what happened to his ship, HMS Hebe, in June 1940.”

“The Hebe crossed the Channel to Dunkirk three times during those chaotic days between 27 May and 4 June.”

“The Hebe was lying about 200 metres off the beach at Dunkirk”

“It was not for him to receive any acclaim for the evacuation of some 330,000 men and saving them from Nazi POW camps.”

“About 20 men left the ship”

“This was the greatest blow which sometimes I feel to this day," he says, on the eve of his 98th birthday.”