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Lance Corporal Arthur (Solly) Soilleux

Family/Last name:
Soilleux
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Arthur (Solly)
Nationality:
British
Service number:
5387131
Military Unit:
British Army, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 4th Battalion (Oxon Bucks LI)
Rank when captured:
Lance Corporal
Place of capture:
Cassell
Date of capture:
5/1940
POW number:
10845
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Working Party
E155 Cosel-Oderhafen / Kozle Port, E131 Gogolin/Tiefbau Pollock
Data sources
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My father was L/c 5387131 Arthur (Solly) Soilleux (known as Solly) in the 4th Battalion Oxford and Bucks he as a Londoner. He was a signaler and was captured May 23ish 1940 at Cassell. Taken to Lamsdorf POW no 10845 work parties E8,E 131, which I have down as E130 (but it was a stone quarry) I have other numbers- E344/155.Dad did the long march around the Sudeten mountains .His group were found at noon on 23 April (St Georges day they all remarked on this and it was never forgotten) by the Americans somewhere near Nuremberg. They were flown back to Great Missenden U K on a Dakota air craft. My dad bless him was the first to get on. Because of the way he came back his regiment have no records of him, they presumed he’d been killed at Cassell at the main bunker along with his Major Thorne. I hope some one out there remembers Solly as he was the nicest of chaps and was respected by all.

Jean Newman

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