Orton was posted to France in September 1939 , where he served during the Battle of France with the second battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment , in May 1940 the battalion formed part of the rearguard stalling the German advance on Dunkirk . Holding the line on the Comines Canal and the Escaut , the battalion was eventually overrun and forced to surrender on 28 May . Taken prisoner , Orton along with men from the Cheshire Regiment , Royal Artillery and the French Army , were taken to a barn outside Wormhout . It was here on the same day that 80 men , including Orton , were massacred by soliders from the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler . He is buried at the Dozinghem Military Cemetery
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Wormhoudt massacre
Charles Orton