Private Stan Browning of 4/Oxf and Bucks, captured at Cassel in 1940

Captain Dixie was OC 145 Bde A/T Coy.
CWGC - Casualty Details

 

Grrrrr...I know I have some Ox Bucks/Glosters PoW photographs at Cassel somewhere on my PC but can I find them !

 

Grrrrr...I know I have some Ox Bucks/Glosters PoW photographs at Cassel somewhere on my PC but can I find them !

Hope you can find them, Andy. It would be fantastic if Stan was amongst them.

 

Guess what

 

German Herr and Panzer Troops observing the Battle of Cassel

 

German troops pass abandoned 140 Field Regiment RA vehicles and 25 Pounders in Cassel as they head to the summit where 145 Bde HQ was situated.

 

Tanks are not my strong point but this looks like a French Renault R-35. This is one of the main roads that leads up the hill into Cassel

 

Four general photo's of the main High Street that runs through Cassel. Some of these locations can be identified from the colour pictures I posted earlier.

 

I still haven't identified the exact location of these but believe the first one is where either 4 OBLI or 2 Glosters HQ's were situated

 

POW's gathered together after Cassel was captured - Not confirmed but the Padre may well be Reverend R D F Wild MC. He was 145 Infantry Brigades Padre. I have a personal account by him of the battle that I will post later.



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Padre to 145 Infantry Brigade May 1940

 

The Memorial to Foch at the top of Cassel that Wild mentions in his account

 

I checked the files today and sadly Stanley doesn't appear to have completed a POW Q.