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By Max Hastings

Frogmen of World War 2

By Chet Cunningham

Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 23480" data-attributes="member: 1"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">SURNAME</li> </ul> Casson <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">FORENAME</li> </ul> Stanley <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">UNIT</li> </ul> SOE Liaison Officer,Greece <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">RANK</li> </ul> Lieutenant Colonel <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">NUMBER</li> </ul> 98094 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">DATE OF DEATH</li> </ul> 17th April 1944 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">AGE</li> </ul> 54 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">GRAVESITE</li> </ul> Newquay (Fairpark) Cemetery,Cornwall C.of E. plot Cons.Grave 684 <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</li> </ul> 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. <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/s-casson.11281/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/11/11281-9c8b13a537da26e28a94854f61914c30.jpg?1591390051" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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