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General => Armed Forces => World War Two => Topic started by: Rebecca Totten on Monday 25 June 18 15:32 BST (UK)
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Hi, this is probably a long shot but i have been wanting to find a picture of my great grandad mainly for my grandad as his father left for war when he was just a boy and died in Dunkirk. My grandad does not remember him as he was too young.
I see group pictures of other battalions and wondered if perhaps one was taken with my great grandad Henry Leonard Squires who served in the 4th Battalion Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry.
He served in the France and Belgium Campaign, 1939/40
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I've been trying to find a picture of the battalion but so far without success. I did come across his memorial on www.findagrave.com, but I'm sure you already have seen that.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17071446/henry-leonard-squires
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I've been trying to find a picture of the battalion but so far without success. I did come across his memorial on www.findagrave.com, but I'm sure you already have seen that.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17071446/henry-leonard-squires
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Thank you for trying I really appreciate it! The only photo i have been able to find is the one i have attached here. It is of a captain who is of the 4th Btn , it does not list any of the other officers names but they could also be 4th Btn. It was taken in March 1940 In Attiches, France.
Henry died 27th May 1940 At Dunkirk
I have also seen the Grave index, although the look has been updated since i last visited. I have put the link in to the picture.
https://2ndww.blogspot.com/2015/12/captain-michael-vp-fleming-1913-1940.html
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I've been trying to find a picture of the battalion but so far without success. I did come across his memorial on www.findagrave.com, but I'm sure you already have seen that.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17071446/henry-leonard-squires
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There is some good photos from this website but only have group photos of the 6th Btn. I would like to find a photo like that of the 4th Btn
http://www.rgjphotos.org.uk/pre1958/oxbuck1940.htm
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I have a signed copy of the ox and bucks war chronicle for this period. It is very detailed and they really did get put through the mill in France. I will find it out this weekend as there are group photos in it although I think its officer groups.
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I have a signed copy of the ox and bucks war chronicle for this period. It is very detailed and they really did get put through the mill in France. I will find it out this weekend as there are group photos in it although I think its officer groups.
Yes i have been reading the story on wanting to know more on what my great grandad would have gone through and that would be great thank you!
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I have a signed copy of the ox and bucks war chronicle for this period. It is very detailed and they really did get put through the mill in France. I will find it out this weekend as there are group photos in it although I think its officer groups.
Hi, i was just wondering whether you had any luck with the War Chronicle?
Kind Regards
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Is it Captain Fleming you are after?
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Hi no im after Henry Leonard Squires, i was hoping he may have been one of the men in the photograph but no names are listed except for Captain Fleming. The 3rd one from the left, the tallest one looks a bit like my grandad. Henry Leonard Squires was his father, but my grandad does not remember what he looked like and has no pictures of him so ive been really wanting to find a picture.
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I have found the book, its the Ox & Bucks War Chronical 1939-1940. I have read through it this afternoon an there is no mention of your relative, it only names Officers and just refers to 'other ranks' for the rest. There are a couple of photos, the Officers before embarkation etc.
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I have found the book, its the Ox & Bucks War Chronical 1939-1940. I have read through it this afternoon an there is no mention of your relative, it only names Officers and just refers to 'other ranks' for the rest. There are a couple of photos, the Officers before embarkation etc.
Ok thanks for looking i appreciate it.
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Hi Rootes 75
Could I get a copy of the photo you mention of the officers before embarkation and any others? I am very interested in photos of Jimmy Graham and Noel Ruck-Nightingale who both died during the escape attempt from Cassel on the night of 30th May 1940 but whose bodies were not found.
Hi Rebecca Totten. I have done some research on the 4th Ox and Bucks at Cassel so please message me if you have any questions.
I have seen a list of the officers in the Attiches photo somewhere and could look it out if you are interested still.
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Neither men you mention are in the group photo but looking at the date entry of the 4th Battalion for the 30th May it details the fighting at Watou and Hondschoote and notes heavy casualties, including 'Second Lieutenant Ruck Nightingale missing, believed killed'.
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I have just found an extract from Padre Wild.
'No one saw Godfrey Wykenham hit, but we heard of him first wounded, then died. Likewise no one saw Bertie Falkiner, Colin Dillwyn or Jimmie Graham killed, but I saw a private, who buried Jimmy, and Douglas Whinney has his watch. Of Noel Ruck Nightingale we have no news at all.'
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Hi Rootes 75
Could I get a copy of the photo you mention of the officers before embarkation and any others? I am very interested in photos of Jimmy Graham and Noel Ruck-Nightingale who both died during the escape attempt from Cassel on the night of 30th May 1940 but whose bodies were not found.
Hi Rebecca Totten. I have done some research on the 4th Ox and Bucks at Cassel so please message me if you have any questions.
I have seen a list of the officers in the Attiches photo somewhere and could look it out if you are interested still.
Hi yes i would definitely be interested in the list of officers.
Kind Regards