Soldiers of 2nd Battalion, The Buffs Regiment leaving a train in England after Dunkirk, France, 1940

Photograph, World War Two (1939-1945).

Shows a group of soldiers walking along rail tracks next to a train.

450,000 British and French troops were evacuated from Dunkirk, Cherbourg and Brest in June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force following a rapid German advance across western Europe.

From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.