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Walter Fairfax Cameron Cassels was born in London on 6 January 1920, the son of Georgina (née Eastwood) and George Cassels, a banker. He was educated at Eton College until 1937 and entered Worcester College, Oxford on 7 October 1938 to study history. He left the College for military service before taking his degree.
Walter Cassels was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on the 27 September 1941. In 1944 he was attached to the 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry in Burma, where he took part in an attack on a Japanese position on Pyinshe Kala Ridge on 26 January 1944. The following day the Japanese launched a counterattack and the Somersets were forced to fall back, and to abandon their wounded, who were reportedly killed by the Japanese troops. Lieutenant Walter Cassels was among the wounded men known to have been left behind, and he was reported as killed in action on 27 January 1944. He was 24 years old.
Walter Cassels is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial, and on the war memorials at Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford.