Lieutenant Jack May
Lt. Jack Carrington May was related to the founder of the Bryant & May match company.
In 1940, Lt. May was the Gun Position Officer of ‘F’ troop, 367 Battery. He was wounded in the action at Chateau Masson, Cassel on 27th May 1940, where ‘F’ Troop was engaged in an exchange of short-range gunfire with Panzer tanks attempting to force a gap between Cassel and the Mont des Recollets.
Lt Jack May, Dursley 1940
Lt. May was evacuated from Cassel just before it was surrounded. Unfortunately he received further injuries from an air attack on the Royal Navy vessel which had evacuated him from Dunkirk.
Lt. Jack May died of these injuries on 26th June 1940 and is buried at the Commonwealth War Grave part of Bromley Hill Cemetery, Kent.