One-Line had stood a good head above most of his infantry company
in the British Expeditionary Force which was why, his mates claimed, the short
company sergeant-major always picked on him. With the two men engaging in a
final and fatal argument during the chaotic retreat to Dunkirk, One-Line
decided to join the growing band of army deserters after landing at
Ramsgate from a luxury motor yacht which had rescued 10 exhausted soldiers from
the French beaches. No-one had witnessed the shooting, but as One-Line told
Sowerbutt: “The bastard Red Caps would
rather hang ours than kill theirs.” To cover his
tracks, Sowerbutt had organised a fresh identity for his friend, complete with
a medical exemption, helped by the
talented but expensive Scribe in Peckham.
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