With the preparations for the 75th anniversary of the 1940 rescue of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk in full flow, I was struck by this shot of the sailing barge Ethel Everard abandoned on the sand, and accompanied by two German military men.
Read the story of the Ethel Everard here.
And of course the family were originally Eberhardt (not sure of spelling) but changed it because of the Kaiser War.