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The Elephant Man: Unseen footage released of forgotten British hero who rescued hundreds of Burmese refugees during World War Two

The story of a British man who rescued hundreds of people during the Second World War using a herd of elephants in an operation dubbed a "Far Eastern Dunkirk" is to be told in full for the first time.

Gyles Mackrell, a 53-year-old tea planter, saved 200 Burmese refugees from the banks of a flooded river using the only means he could think of to get them to safety - elephants.

Mackrell's rescue mission was followed by the press at the time, who nicknamed him the Elephant Man, but the events of June 1942 were soon consigned to history....
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)