THE MASSACRE AT LE PARADIS - HELL IN PARADISE - MAY1940.
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The Victims

IT is difficult to establish the names of all of those who were massacred at Le Paradis, particularly in the light of the fact that it took a number of years before it was accepted by the British authorities that a massacre had actually taken place. 

Click here to read a list of all those buried in the cemetery at Le Paradis in alphabetical order in a pdf file. The names have been taken from our own research and visits to the cemetery and cross referenced against the names listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website. Click here to go to a page where you can read about the cemetery, view photographs and go to the individual pages for each of the 111 soldiers buried there.

This list includes many of those who died in the massacre along with those who died fighting in Le Paradis and the surrounding area and who have their final resting place in the cemetery.

Trying to establish the names of those who died in the massacre is far from an exact science. Working from exhumation lists and other information we will be building up a list of those we believe were murdered outside the barn. We will add names as and when we receive additional information/confirmation.


We know with a fair amount of certainty that 99 men from the Royal Norfolks, Royal Scots and other regiments were involved in the massacre with two - Privates William O'Callaghan and Private Bert Pooley - surviving. This leaves a figure of 97 men murdered.

Below are the names of those we believe to have been murdered in the massacre. Click on the names to open individual pages to each soldier.

​You can view the register of the graves for Le Paradis by clicking here.


Soldiers from the Royal Norfolk Regiment (44 identified to date)

Pte Thomas William ALLEN
Pte Douglas Harry AUKER

Pte Frederick Arthur Walter BARBER
Pte Frederick Arthur BRADLEY
Pte Robert Norval BRASH
Pte George Ephraim BROMLEY
Pte Philip BROOKS
Pte Frank Leonard CHEVIS
Pte Frederick CLEAR
Pte Charles William CLILVERD

Pte Walter Leonard CRACKNELL
Sgt William Robert CURSON
Pte Albert Victor DALLAS

Pte Harold DENHAM
Pte William Benjamin DOWNING
Pte Arthur Charles William GALLIN
​Pte Frank Robert GRAY
Pte Lionel Charles GREENGRASS
Pte Henry Robert HANSEN
Pte Frederick William George HEDDEN

Pte Charles Richard HIGH
Corporal Amos HORNBY
Pte John Spencer LEE
Pte Charles Ernest MARSHALL
Pte Arthur Edward MOSS
Pte Leslie George NICHOLS
Drummer Claude Oberia NIGHTINGALE
Lance Corporal Ernest Alfred PAGET
Drummer Thomas George Reeves PARKER

​Pte Raymond Arthur PIGG
Pte Arthur Benjamin PRESTON
Cpl Horatio Herbert PRETTY
Pte Richard William PRIEST
Pte John William RAYBOULD
Pte Harold READE
Major Lisle Charles Dudley RYDER
Pte Sidney Arthur SMALLER
Pte Harry John SOANES
Lance Corporal Alex Henry SPOONER
Pte Alfred Frederick WARD
Pte John Edward WHITE

Pte Ronald Cuthbert WHITELEY
Platoon Serjeant Major Jack Robert WHITLAM
Drummer George Edward WOODHOUSE



Soldiers from the Royal Scots Regiment

Pte William Matthew KIDD


Soldiers From Other Regiments 

Manchester Regiment

L/Cpl Walter BRANCHFLOWER


Royal Artillery 

Gunner Arthur LEIGH

Royal Corps of Signals 

Signalman Ernest Albert STANLEY

Army Physical Training Corps (1)

Sgt. J. A. CAMPBELL


We also have photographs of all the headstones in Le Paradis Cemetery on a single page with a list of names and this can be accessed by clicking here. 

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