I am trying to find out the location and circumstances of the death of 2/Lt Geoffrey Aveline Rowe of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry. He was TA, so I presume he was in the 4th Battalion. He is posted as missing (27th May) on the Dunkirk memorial and all my family know is that he was posted as killed in action. A year before he had been best man to my grandparents and god father to my mother. Given the fact he was TA and that he was killed (?) on the 27th, I assume he was at Cassel. I am taking my mother to Cassel in March and it would be really something if I could give her a bit more information. Does anybody know anything - i.e. diary mentions etc???
welcome to the forum Second Lieutenant GEOFFREY AVELINE ROWE Mentioned in Despatches 76124, 1st Bucks. Bn., Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry who died age 34 on 27 May 1940 Son of Ernest and Annie Jane Rowe. Remembered with honour DUNKIRK MEMORIAL CWGC :: Certificate I'm sure a forum member will be able to offer advice also link below just in case you do not have his service records Ministry of Defence | About Defence | What we do | Personnel | Service Records | Making a Request for Information held on the Personnel Records of Deceased Service Personnel
Hello and welcome He was 1 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Buckinghamshire Battalion). I've got the diary and a book on Hazebrouck which is where I think he may have been killed. I'll check in a bit. Andy
I can now also confirm he got his Mention in Despatches at Hazebrouck where he was killed. He was in C Company and they were defending the southern part of Hazebrouck.
you chaps never fail to impress !! Major B K Heyworth Ox and Bucks is buried here, quite a large amount of 1940 graves here as well, some unidentified, be worth a look !
Annoyingly his MiD is not listed on the Nataional Archives website. I'll try and find time today and have another read through the diary and see if I can figure out what C Company were doing on the day of his death. I only sped through it yesetday looking for his name and his MiD along with Coy wasn't listed until the end of the document.
Its amazing that you have found so much info so quickly, thanks! Any further info would be extremely welcome. If poss I will try to pinpoint location of C Coy when I visit next month.
