Cyril John Prangley
British Army Royal Artillery
from:George Street, Staines
My Father, Cyril Prangley’s regiment, was ordered to protect the enemy line in Benghazi so all the other regiments could escape. He was captured sometime during 1940 and held in prison in Benghazi. He was transferred by the German army in a boat to mainland Italy and marched to a place called Casserta. To our knowledge he was held as a PoW but classed as "missing presumed dead" for three and a half years. He was repatriation by the Americans at the end of the war. He very rarely spoke of the horrors he saw and the vicious treatment he endured, but recalled on that great morning he awoke to find no German soldiers patrolling the prison camp and the gates wide open and they all just walked out of the gates.
