Bishop's Stortford war veteran Arthur Stearn, with shrapnel wounds to his leg, was among a group of Allied troops rescued from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk on the final day of the evacuation.It was June 1940 – 75 years ago this week – that injured 910308 Gunner Stearn, who served with the Royal Artillery, was carried on a stretcher to one of the flotilla of small boats which returned to the shore time and again to save as many soldiers as possible.But Arthur, now 97, was not...
