The Borders history by Shears states the following:

At 8am (30th May) the battalion reached Uxem on the Dunkirk Perimeter and took up a defensive position on the line of the Canal des Chats. This posistion was manned by the 5th Battalion in the centre, with the 1st East Lancs on the right and the 3rd Coldstream Guards of the left. There was odd shelling and much aerial activity all day. At 4am on the 31st the enemy carried out a heavy artillery bombardment, followed by an attack on the canal, on the front of the 1st Division, to which the Brigade had been attached. The attack was repulsed. In this attack all four companies of the battalion were in the front line. C Company suffered severely from heavy shell and mortar fire.

A detachment of seventy men of the South Lancashire Regiment, which had joined the battalion at Rousbrugge-Harringhe, was given to C Company to make up their strength.

That evening orders were received to send back to the beaches at Dunkirk all men who were not urgently required.

On the 1st June the enemy artillery increased, and C Company again suffered heavily, whilst A Company had several casualties.

Private L Wilson, a stretcher bearer in C Company, with three other stretcher bearers, went out in the face of heavy enemy fire to collect wounded. His three companions were all shot, but he continued alone and suceeded in bringing in a total of eight men, carrying them in his arms unaided. He was awarded the Military Medal.

That night the battalion withdrew to the beaches, covered by the Carrier Platoon, still commanded by 2/Lieut. Musgrave, who later was awarded the Military Cross for his gallant work throuout the whole period of the Operation