John Mossop served with the QVR a Territorial Army motor-cycle battalion, nominally the divisional cavalry for the 56th (London) Division. They had briefly been attached to the 30th Motor Brigade in April but then were returned to the 56th (London) Division for home defence, being deprived of their twenty-two scout cars. They were stationed near Ashford in Kent and late on 21 May, the QVR was ordered to proceed by train to Dover to embark for Calais
It was here that John was taken prisoner by the Germans on 26th MAy 1940 and was imprisoned in Stalag XX!
At the end of October 1943 Rifleman John George Mossop (known as Jackie) of 33 Bowthorn Road, Cleator Moor, Cumberland was repatriated from a German Prisoner of War Camp. After a long spell in a military hospital in N.W. England he was eventually declared incurable and sent home After three weeks at home, Jackie Mossop passed away on Thursday 7 September 1944.