Not sure if the family have seen them, the truth with a lot of these groups is that they have come from the family though, but then you end up with families spreading out and bits end up with members who have no interest and get rid of them when other relatives would love them. I got them from a collector on Ebay, not sure where he got them - he had posted a clip on youtube about the group (and another paybook I also got).
NX56972 Oswald Ernest CHAPMAN 18th Anti-Tank Battery, part of Sparrowforce who was captured at Airkom 23/2/42
A pair of books to George Henry McKay 3319039, Gordon HIghlanders captured in 1940 - the casualty returns don't really help with his date of capture or his Battalion, I.B.D. is noted
He was presented with a Royal Humane Society award for his part in rescuing two drowning boys at Elswick Colliery pit pond on the 23rd July 1939. Newcastle Weekly Chronicle 23rd September 1939
6911858 Alexander Duke LAWRENCE, Rifle Brigade capture France 1940 - from the "Missing" casualty returns he is in a list that starts with a 1st Battalion man and I think the full list are the same Battalion but not 100% sure. On the photo below he is on the right
The entry in his AB64 book lists his year of birth as 1909? Alexander Duke LAWRENCE 12th March 1908 - 2Q 1977 Fulham, London Home address, 38 Claybrook Road, Fulham, London in 1939 Fulham Chronicle 8th June 1945
5947359 Reginald Arthur CLAYTON, 1st Loyal Regiment captured 18/2/44 - at this point the Battalion was engaged in a desperate defence at Anzio. His brother had been killed in 1942 with the Merchant Navy on the SS Empire Steel
14089 James HIGGINS 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, captured 21/3/18 near Epehy, he had suffered a GSW fracturing his right thigh - this was the 1st day of Operation Michael
203538 William Barker CASSON of 4th East Lancashire's, captured 21/3/18 near Hargicourt again this was the 1st day of Operation Michael
William Barker Casson in the UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920 Name: William Barker Casson Military Year: 1914-1920 Rank: Corporal Company: WO 329 Regiment or Corps: East Lancashire Regiment Regiment Number: 203538 Medal Awarded: British War Medal and Victory Medal William Barker Casson in the 1939 England and Wales Register Name: William Barker Casson Gender: Male Marital status: Married Birth Date: 22 Dec 1897 Residence Year: 1939 Address: 102 Residence Place: Morecambe and Heysham, Lancashire, England Occupation: Joiner Schedule Number: 38 Sub Schedule Number: 1 Enumeration District: NWDK Registration district: 479-2 District No 8 Household Members: Name William Barker Casson This record is officially closed. William Barker Casson John Godfrey Casson Seems his name was used throughout the family, passing from father to son TD
My great grandad’s YMCA logbook from when he was a POW has a Bill Casson named in it. His address was 25 Hatton Avenue, Crampton, Wombwell nr Barnsley, Yorkshire. I have him listed as a L/Cpl in the AAC, army number 3653446. POW number 82134. Coincidence?
UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Name: J Burton Rank: Private Army Number: 6020338 Regiment: Devonshire Regiment POW Number: 82011 Camp Type: Stalag Camp Number: VIII-A Camp Location: Görlitz, Saxony Record Office: Infantry Record Office, Exeter Record Office Number: 22 Can you read his date of birth properly, someone has put a bloody great stamp over it - plus are there any further details on the newspaper article? wifes name etc etc TD
Name: W Casson Rank: Lance Corporal Army Number: 3653446 Regiment: Army Air Corps POW Number: 82134 Camp Type: Stalag Camp Number: IV-G Camp Location: Oschatz, Saxony Record Office: Army Air Corps and Army Catering Corps Record Office, Drill Hall, East Claremont St., Edinburgh 9 Record Office Number: 45 TD
1525239 Basil DENMARK of 102nd (Northumberland Hussars) Anti-Tank Regiment RA captured 2/6/41 on Crete - he was in the same unit and captured the same day as John Robinson from earlier in the thread
5777162 Frederick George CREED of 6th Royal Norfolk Regiment captured at the fall of Singapore 15/2/42