Remembering Saint-Valery-en-Caux

That the Parliament acknowledges that 12 June 2020 will be the 80th anniversary of the 51st Highland Division’s surrender at St Valery in 1940; remembers the sacrifice of the soldiers of that Division, many of whom died or spent years as prisoners of war; recalls that the soldiers involved were forced to surrender to German forces at 10am on 12 June 1940 and included men of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders, the Black Watch, the Gordon Highlanders, the Seaforth Highlanders, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, RAMC, RASC, RA and other supporting and attached troops from other parts of the UK, and supports the calls made by Legion Scotland, Poppy Scotland and the Royal Caledonian Education Trust for pipers and other musicians to play The Heroes of St Valery at 10am on 12 June in recognition of the sacrifice made by those who died.