- SURNAME
Casson
- FORENAME
Stanley
- UNIT
SOE Liaison Officer,Greece
- RANK
Lieutenant Colonel
- NUMBER
98094
- DATE OF DEATH
17th April 1944
- AGE
54
- GRAVESITE
Newquay (Fairpark) Cemetery,Cornwall C.of E. plot Cons.Grave 684
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Intelligence Corps
born 7.5.1889
son of William Augustus and Kate Elizabeth Casson
husband of Nora Elizabeth Joan Casson,Kensington,London
educated Merchant Taylors School
educated Lincoln College,Oxford
award Mention in Despatches in WW1
Assistant Director of the British School,Athens
Fellow of New College,Oxford University
Reader in Classical Archaeology
Warwick BV247 (525 Sq,RAF) exploded and crashed English Channel near Newquay, Cornwall
Stanley Casson (1889-1944) was a multi-talented art scholar and army officer
who read Classical Archaeology at Oxford, served as Assistant Director of
the British School at Athens, Special Lecturer in Art at Bristol
University, and was Director of British Academy Excavations at
Constantinople in 1928-1929. His publications include numerous articles
and books on the subject of Classical Antiquities. He also had two
distinguished war records, starting the First World War as an officer with
an infantry regiment in the trenches of Flanders before becoming part of
the British Salonika Force in 1916 and finally serving on the General Staff
in 1918. His war poems, written in the Flanders mud, are now part of the
War Poetry Collection at Napier University in Edinburgh. Starting in 1939
he again served the BritIsh government in Holland, and later transferred to
Greece where he was serving as a liaison officer when he was killed in a
plane crash in 1944.
DATE OF DEATH:
17-Apr-1944
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