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247015 L/Sgt. Frederick William Stephen Casburn British Army 100th (Royal Monmouthshire) Field Company Royal Engineers from:Newport, Gwent My father's uncle, Frederick Casburn served with the Royal Monmouthshire (Militia) Supplementary Reserve, was mobilized on 23rd of August 1939. Serving with the 100th Army Field Company (Royal Engineers) he embarked at Newport on 14th of September 1939 and disembarked at Nantes, France on 16th of September 1939. On 14th of April 1940 he was appointed and granted rank of Lance Sergeant (granted though paid acting rank of L/Sgt having remained unpaid for a period of 21 days). Army records show on 1st of June 1940 Lance Sergeant Casburn with the 100th Company was reported Missing. Memories of Frederick's story of capture tells how he hid from the Germans in a ditch and was befriended by a French farmer, but a neighbouring French man reported him and he was taken prisoner by the Germans. Prisoner of war records show Frederick was captured at Watou (just 18 miles from Dunkirk) on 29th of May 1940, he was wounded at the time of capture and was transported to a POW hospital in Magdeburg, Germany. He stayed at the POW camp hospital from 1st June 1940 to 26th September 1940. He was then transported to Thorn XXA and was there for 6 and half months. Then moved to Marionburg XXB for 5 months. Then back to Thorn XXA for a year. They then sent him to Hohenfels 383 where he stayed for 2 years and 7 months. He left Hohenfels 383 with the march on 21st of April 1945 and was liberated arriving in the UK on 28th of April 1945. On his return to the UK, he was admitted to Woolaston Hospital, Newport and discharged from the army, being found permanently unfit for any form of military service. He returned from war, a very different man. Frederick, like so many others, hardly spoke about his time as a POW. He passed away in 1966 in Newport Gwent. Hayley Evans Add to this record.  Related Content: 100th Field Coy (Royal Monmouthshire), Royal Engineers Operation Dynamo - The Evacuation from Dunkirk and nearby Beaches Battle of France and The Low Countries 1940 Stalag 20A (312) Prisoner of War Camp Stalag 20b Prisoner of War Camp Stalag 383 Prisoner of War Camp Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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