As a viscount’s son and the heir to a fortune counted in millions, ‘Dick’ Furness had everything to live for. However, he sacrificed it all to save a trapped convoy from destruction in France in the spring of 1940
Quartermaster Lieutenant John Buckland was in a quandary.
Everywhere was swallowed in a cloying mist that clung to the ground. It was a blessing and curse, masking his convoy from prying eyes while simultaneously obscuring every conceivable landmark along the route out of Arras in northern France. For three miles he had been travelling blind at the head of a column of around 40 ‘soft-skin’ lorries making up the bulk of the transport belonging to the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards, in an effort to evade the encircling Germans during the early hours of Friday, May 24, 1940.
