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Commander James Campbell Clouston's pivotal role in the evacuation of some 167,000 British troops is beyond dispute. His actions are reviewed in this book, including the fraught situation he got caught up in, which was to cost him his life. He was found to be in the way for two different reasons. First, the Admiralty had suddenly banned ships from going anywhere near Dunkirk during daylight hours, and no ships meant Clouston would have had nothing to do all day. How was he supposed to proceed? He wasn't. He was ferreted back to England. The official statement that he'd gone back for a meal, a shower and a rest is nonsense.
The second, perhaps greater, problem came from Cabinet's decision that there was to be a Miracle of Deliverance, all about drama on the beaches and not about the Dunkirk Pier. Yet Clouston had been key to evacuating the lion's share of troops from the pier. But how was he supposed to fit in with Cabinet's freshly prescribed Miracle? Again, he wasn't.
He and thirty-five volunteers were dispatched back to Dunkirk in broad daylight, under a clear sky that was swarming with Stukas. Commander Clouston's boat was attacked and sunk, and he and his crew were left to drown. A cover-up followed. Traditions were dispensed with, and when the time came for rescue, Dynamo looked the other way. The question is why.
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I am related to Commander Clouston through his wife, Gwyneth (née Vanderpump), and have always felt he had been treated unfairly. In 2017 I saw the dedication ceremony at Lachine in Quebec, during which a plaque was unveiled to his memory. I realized then that nothing was known about how or why he had perished and decided to do something about it. I am a medical doctor by training and background, now retired, and have spent many years teaching how to design and implement clinical research studies and trials in Canada.
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