GUARDSMAN'S FEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 22, 25 July 1940, Page 9

GUARDSMAN'S FEAT

;' ' ' ;, SHOT DOWN SIXTY GERMANS Thousands of British, French, and i- Polish soldiers came back to Britain ! yesterday from Norway. Among them • was a party of British Guardsmen, said . the "Daily Mail" on June 13. ' j "How far is it from here to France?" ■ I one Guardsman asked. "We did well in Norway, though we were fighting snow and ice as well as the Nazis." A Guardsman has been recommended for the D.C.M. As the British fought a rearguard action his platoon became isolated. He heard the cry of a wounded soldier, ■ handed his Bren gun to a sergeant, and, in the face of heavy fire, went ' back and carried the wounded man into a wood. The Guardsman rested for a moment, and as he and the wounded man lay beneath the trees the searching Germans passed only a few. feet from them. When they had gone the Guardsman carried his man back to the platoon, recovered his gun, and, single-handed, shot down 60 Germans. Mr. Hambro, President of Norway's Parliament, has said that the Norwegian Government would meet in London shortly. Nine of its ten members were already there. They were to discuss the rebuilding of Norway's armed forces, and the position of the 10,000 Norwegian ships now controlled by the Allies. Mr. Hambro, 55 years old, tall, wellbuilt, with a quick smile, and an almost American accent, expected to call a Statsraad—meeting of the King and Government—at the Norwegian Lega'[tion.