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Falck,
Rudolph Julian

Of Jewish descent.
Son of George and Elisabeth Falck.
Husband of
Pauline Mary Falck, of Epsom, Surrey.
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1920
?
-
26.09.1944
(MIA) [age 24]
[Groesbeek Memorial, panel 8]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
06.07.1942 [237410]
|
WS/Lt.
|
06.01.1943
|
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Education: Oxford University (BA)
06.07.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Pionieer Corps [emergency commission]
|
06.01.1944
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 4 Provost Section, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [missing in
action])
|
|
Farrands,
Noel Frank
|
?
- |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
16.01.1943 [258878]
|
WS/Lt.
|
16.07.1943 (reld 24.04.1947;
disability)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
24.04.1947
|
|
16.01.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Royal Regiment of Artilley [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Gun
Position Officer, E Troop, 3rd Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [POW])
|
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Feltham,
Robert Harold Bruce
"Bob"
Son of Thomas Bruce (Town Clerk of Herford City) and Myrtle Feltham.
Married
1st (22.05.1946) Joy Delanoix Cooke, a farmer's daughter from Bourne in Lincolnshire (divorced
1953); one son.
Married 2nd (1956) Elizabeth ...; one son.
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24.08.1923
-
02.10.2001
Hereford, Herefordshire
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
02.04.1943
[269401]
|
WS/Lt.
|
02.10.1943
|
Lt.
|
08.03.1947,
seniority 24.02.1946
|
A/Capt.
|
11.01.1946-17.02.1946,
23.02.1946-16.04.1946
|
T/Capt.
|
17.04.1946-23.08.1950
|
Capt.
|
24.08.1950
|
T/Maj.
|
01.09.1950-19.02.1951
|
Maj.
|
24.08.1957
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
20.12.1965-06.01.1966
|
Lt.Col.
|
07.01.1966
(Empl. List 1) (Special List 24.08.1973) (retd 24.08.1978; own request)
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Education: psc, psc(a)
| 1941 |
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enlisted
|
02.04.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Hampshire Regiment [emergency commission to 07.03.1947]
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08.04.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
|
|
|
1st
Parachute Battalion (N Africa, Sicily, Italy, UK)
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(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 7 Platoon (S Company), 1st Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
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08.03.1947
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Dorset Regiment [since 17.05.1958 The
Devonshire & Dorset Regiment] [permanent commission]
|
After the war he served with 9th Battalion The
Parachute Regiment in Palestine before joining 2nd Battalion The Dorsetshire
Regiment in Malaya. His career
then followed tours with the regiment, Staff College in 1957, staff tours, RAF
Staff College, further staff tours and second in command of 1st Battalion The
Cheshire Regiment in 1964-65. Bob was then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and
joined the Trucial Oman Scouts in 1965. In 1974 he returned to the area with the
Kuwait Liaison Team until 1978 when he left the Army and remained in Kuwait as
their logistics advisor until 1986. After retiring to Herefordshire he became
involved with SSAFA, Forces Help Society as well as Chairman of the Parish
Council.
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Fitch,
John Anthony Colson
"Tony"

Son of Sydney Hewitt Fitch and Madeline Fitch, of
Sheringham, Norfolk.
|
14.08.1912
-
19/23.09. 1944
(KIA) [age 32]
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 20.B.20]
|
Cadet
Cpl.
|
?
|
2nd
Lt. (Suppl.Res.)
|
19.04.1933 [58834]
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.02.1935
|
Lt.
|
01.02.1938
|
A/Capt.
|
01.09.1939
|
WS/Capt.
|
01.01.1941
|
Capt.
|
01.02.1943
|
T/Maj.
|
03.06.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
1944?
|
|
|
|
|
late
Cadet-Corporal, Brighton College Contingent, Junior Division, Officer Training
Corps
|
19.04.1933
|
|
|
commissioned,
the The Manchester Regiment [Supplementary Reserve of Officers]
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01.02.1935
|
|
|
commissioned,
the The Manchester Regiment [Regular Army]
|
(01.1937)
|
-
|
(01.1939)
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2nd
Battalion The Manchester Regiment
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, B Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Sicily)
|
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
2nd Parachute Battalion
|
01.1944
|
-
|
1944
|
Brigade
Major, 1st Parachute Brigade
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 3rd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
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Fitzgerald,
George Henry
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
07.08.1943 [288765]
|
WS/Lt.
|
07.02.1944 (reld > 04.1946)
|
|
07.08.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Parachute Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 9 Platoon (C Company), 11th
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
|
Flavell,
James Sydney Channell
"Johnny"
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01.07.1924
-
04.2005 still alive |
Cadet
|
? [6216570]
|
2nd
Lt.
|
22.04.1944
[315210]
|
WS/Lt.
|
22.10.1944
|
Lt.
|
22.11.1947,
seniority 01.01.1947
|
A/Capt.
|
18.10.1946-17.01.1947
|
T/Capt.
|
18.01.1947-09.09.1948,
04.01.1950-17.11.1950, 18.05.1951-30.06.1951
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Capt.
|
01.07.1951
(retd 02.07.1961)
|
|
MID
|
30.09.1958
|
Cyprus
01-06.1958
|
|
22.04.1944
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Parachute Regiment [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Liaison
Officer, 2nd
Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
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22.11.1947
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Middlesex Regiment [regular army commission]
|
|
Fleet,
William George
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
04.12.1942 [253793]
|
WS/Lt.
|
04.12.1942
|
Capt.
|
30.06.1949 (Empl.
List 4)
|
Capt. & Paymr.
|
17.04.1955 (reld
01.08.1956)
|
Hon. Capt.
|
01.08.1956
|
|
04.12.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Pioneer Corps [emergency commission]
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15.09.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Regimental
Signals Officer, 11th Parachute Regiment (Arnhem)
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30.06.1949?
|
|
|
transferred
to South Staffordshire Regiment [short service commission]
|
17.04.1955
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Army Pay Corps [short service commission]
|
|
Fletcher,
Peter Noel
|
?
-
|
Cadet
|
?
[151768]
|
2nd Lt.
|
29.10.1943
[299274]
|
WS/Lt.
|
29.04.1944
|
T/Capt.
|
25.10.1944
(reld > 04.1946)
|
|
MBE
|
01.01.1946
|
New
Year 46
|
|
29.10.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Army Air Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Adjutant,
No. 1 Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
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|
Flockhart,
Alexander Simmers
"Sandy"
Younger son of Ma and Pa Flockhart of the
Levenhall Arms. Married (1949) Beatrice Rankin; one son, two daughters.
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26.01.1916
Musselburgh
-
26.03.2004
Edinburgh
|
Lt.
|
11.11.1940 [154175]
|
WS/Capt.
|
11.11.1941 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
MB
|
Education: Musselburgh Grammar; George Watson’s
College; Edinburgh Dental Hospital & School (...-1939)
11.11.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Army Dental Corps [emergency commission]
|
|
|
|
served
Eastern Command & Western Command
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Dentist
& Anaesthesist, 133rd Parachute Field Ambulance (Arnhem [POW])
|
09.1944
|
-
|
04.1945
|
dentist
in a POW hospital
|
Dental practice in Musselburgh since 1947 (moved to
Edinburgh 1948) & visiting surgeon to Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School.
Adviser to the Scottish Dental Estimates Board. Retired 1981. Played rugby &
golf.
|
Fogarty,
Christopher Winthrop
Son of late Philip Christopher Fogarty, ICS, and
late Hilda Spenser Fogarty.
Married (1961) Elizabeth
Margaret Ince (died 1972).
|
18.09.1921
-
23.09.2005
London [?]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd
Lt.
|
04.07.1942
[237353]
|
WS/Lt.
|
04.01.1943
(retd < 04.1946)
|
|
CB
|
1973
|
?
|
|
Education: Ampleforth College; Christ Church, Oxford
04.07.1942
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Royal Regiment of Artillery [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Command
Post Officer, 1st Airlanding Light Battery RA (Arnhem [POW])
|
Assistant Principal, 1946, Principal, 1949, HM
Treasury; Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance of Eastern Nigeria, 1956; Assistant
Secretary, HM Treasury, 1959, Under-Secretary, 1966; Treasury Representative, South
Asia and Far East, 1967-1972;
Deputy Secretary, HM Treasury, and Director, European Investment Bank,
1972-1976.
Deputy Secretary, Overseas Development Administration, Foreign and Commonwealth
Office, (formerly Ministry of Overseas Development), 1976-1981.
|
Foot,
Reginald Sydney

From London.
|
13.04.1913
-
1978 ?? |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
04.07.1940
[138194]
|
WS/Lt.
|
04.01.1942
|
Lt.
|
12.10.1946,
seniority 13.04.1939
|
A/Capt.
|
13.05.1942-12.08.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
13.08.1942-13.06.1945,
22.10.1945-19.02.1946
|
WS/Capt.
|
20.02.1946
|
Capt.
|
12.10.1946,
seniority 01.07.1946
|
A/Maj.
|
20.11.1945-19.02.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
20.02.1946-12.04.1949
|
Maj.
|
13.04.1949
(retd 07.10.1958; disability)
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
19.12.1953-18.11.1955
|
|
MC
|
21.10.1943
|
Sicily
|
|
Education: psc
|
|
|
served in
the ranks for 307 days (mobilized TA)
|
04.07.1940
|
|
|
commissioned,
The South Staffordshire Regiment [emergency commission to 11.10.1946]
|
(07.1943)
|
-
|
(09.1944)
|
Second-in-Command,
B Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Sicily; Arnhem [wounded,
POW])
|
12.10.1946
|
-
|
07.10.1958
|
permanent
commission
|
|
Forman,
Michael Bertram
"Mike"

|
28.03.1921
-
15.03.2005
Moffat |
2nd Lt.
|
24.05.1939 [91061]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941
|
T/Capt.
|
21.10.1941
|
WS/Capt.
|
17.03.1944 (reld
> 04.1946)
|
A/Maj.
|
17.12.1943
|
Hon.Maj.
|
> 04.1946
|
|
TD
|
13.07.1951
|
?
|
|
24.05.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
The King's Own Scottish Borderers - Territorial Army (late Cadet CQMS,
Loretto School Contingent, Junior Division, OTC)
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
as Platoon Commander, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
|
1941
|
|
|
Intelligence
Officer, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
|
mid
1941
|
-
|
late
1942
|
Company
Commander, 7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers
|
late
1942
|
|
|
Instructor
at Battle School (Voxter and Invershin) when 7 KOSB was serving with OSDEF
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, B Company,
7th Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Arnhem [wounded, POW at
Braunschweig till 05.1945])
|
08.1945
|
-
|
05.1946
|
acting
Second-in-Command, 2nd Battalion The King's Own Scottish Borderers (Peshawar,
India)
|
|
Forshall,
Peter Hyde
|
05.08.1905
Iping, Midhurst, West Sussex
-
20.06.1980
Iping, Midhurst, West Sussex
|
Gnr.
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
17.06.1939 [88545]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.01.1941 (reld
< 04.1946)
|
T/Capt.
|
07.08.1941
|
Hon. Capt.
|
< 04.1946
|
|
|
|
|
late Cadet, Shrewsbury School Contingent, Junior Division,
Officer Training Corps
|
17.06.1939
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Royal Armoured Corps - Territorial Army (3rd County of London Yeomanry)
[from RA]
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
TA
|
12.07.1940
|
|
|
posted to
MI 5 (Military Intelligence, section 5, the security service)
|
04.05.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
Support Company, 11th Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
?
|
-
|
30.11.1955
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
Post-war a stockbroker.
|
Foulkes,
Ralph Colwyn
|
?
-
04.2005 still alive |
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
13.02.1943 [262970]
|
WS/Lt.
|
13.08.1943 (reld
16.01.1946;
disability)
|
Hon. Lt.
|
16.01.1946
|
|
13.02.1943
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Reconnaissance Corps [emergency commission]
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Officer
Commanding, 7 Section (C Troop), 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron (Arnhem)
|
|
Frank,
Antony Mutrie
"Tony"
From Liverpool.
Married (1949) Clare Frank (née ...) (died 12.03.2006); five sons.
|
02.12.1917
-
07.2007 still alive
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.10.1939 [99817]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.04.1941
|
A/Capt.
|
06.06.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
1943?
|
WS/Capt.
|
11.02.1946
|
T/Maj.
|
11.02.1946-(04.1946) (reld
> 04.1946)
|
|
MC
|
23.12.1943
|
Sicily
07.43
|
|
SSM
|
14.11.1947
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
MID
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
01.10.1939
|
|
|
commissioned, The Lancashire Fusiliers [emergency commission]
|
11.05.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(07.1943)
|
|
|
A Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion
(Sicily)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command, A Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem)
|
|
Fraser,
William Annfred
|
?
-
20.09.1944
(KIA)
[Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 17.A.9]
|
Cadet
|
?
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.03.1941 [176422]
|
WS/Lt.
|
01.09.1942
|
T/Capt.
|
28.11.1943
|
|
01.03.1941
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) [emergency commission]
|
11.03.1943
|
|
|
transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Liaison
Officer, 3rd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [killed in action])
|
|
Frazer,
Simon Macleod
|
(06?).1906
Fulham, London
-
10.06.1991 |
2nd Lt.
|
04.07.1927 [64382]
|
Lt.
|
07.03.1939
|
Lt.
|
22.01.1941
|
WS/Capt.
|
22.01.1942
|
T/Maj.
|
23.10.1943
|
Hon. Maj.
|
?
|
|
OBE
|
10.06.1967
|
HM's
birthday 67
|
|
TD
|
14.11.1967
|
?
|
MB, BS
|
04.07.1927
|
|
|
commissioned,
the Territorial Army - General List (University Candidates)
|
07.03.1935
|
-
|
30.10.1935
|
Territorial
Army - General List (Officer Training Corps, Imperial Service College
Contingent, Junior Division)
|
30.10.1936
|
-
|
(01.1939)
|
Army
Service Corps Unit, Officer Training Corps, University of London
|
24.08.1939
|
|
|
mobilized
|
22.01.1941
|
|
|
transferred
to the Royal Army Medical Corps - Territorial Army
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Second-in-Command,
181st Airlanding Field Ambulance (Arnhem [POW])
|
?
|
-
|
01.04.1964
|
Territorial
Army Reserve of Officers [age limit]
|
Director of Health Services, Bermuda.
|
Frost,
John Dutton



Son of late Brig.Gen. Frank Dutton Frost, CBE,
MC and Elsie Dora Bright. Married (1947) Jean MacGregor Lyle; one son, one
daughter.
Interview
at IWM
|
31.12.1912
Poona, India
-
21.05.1993
Milland, Hampshire
|
2nd Lt.
|
01.09.1932 [53721]
|
Lt.
|
01.09.1935
|
Capt.
|
01.09.1940
|
A/Maj.
|
17.12.1941-16.03.1942
|
T/Maj.
|
17.03.1942-19.02.1943
|
WS/Maj.
|
20.02.1943
|
Maj.
|
01.07.1946
|
A/Lt.Col.
|
20.11.1942-19.02.1943
|
T/Lt.Col.
|
20.02.1943-15.02.1948,
24.02.1952-07.04.1955
|
local
Lt.Col.
|
23.12.1949-31.12.1951,
18.02.1952-23.02.1952
|
Bt.
Lt.Col.
|
01.07.1953
|
Lt.Col.
|
27.05.1955
|
T/Col.
|
27.06.1955-27.05.1956
|
Col.
|
28.05.1956
|
T/Brig.
|
27.03.1958-27.05.1960
|
Brig.
|
28.05.1960
|
Maj.Gen.
|
11.10.1961,
seniority 10.02.1961 (retd 18.04.1967)
|
|
CB
|
01.01.1964
|
New
Year 64
|
|
DSO
|
11.02.1943
|
North
Africa 42-43
|
|
DSO
|
20.09.1945
|
Arnhem
09.44
|
|
MC
|
15.05.1942
|
Bruneval
raid 27.02.42
|
|
Education: Wellington College; RMC Sandhurstl Staff
College, Camberley (1946)
01.09.1932
|
|
|
commissioned,
The Cameronians
|
17.06.1938
|
-
|
04.03.1941
|
seconded
to the
Iraq Levies
local Capt. 01.06.1940-31.08.1940
|
29.09.1941
|
-
|
16.12.1941
|
Adjutant
|
1941
|
-
|
1945
|
Major
and LtCol, Parachute Regiment (Bruneval raid, 1942; Oudna, 1942; Tunisian
campaign, 1942-43; Primosole Bridge, 1943; Italian campaign, 1943; Arnhem
Bridge, 1944)
|
(09.1944)
|
|
|
Commanding
Officer, 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [wounded, POW])
|
16.02.1948
|
-
|
30.11.1949
|
GSO2,
HQ Lowland District
|
23.12.1949
|
-
|
01.01.1952
|
GSO2,
Senior Officers' School
|
24.02.1952
|
-
|
31.08.1952
|
AA&QMG
South Malaya District
|
01.09.1952
|
-
|
11.09.1953
|
AA&QMG,
17th Gurkha Infantry Division
|
12/09/1953
|
-
|
31.01.1955
|
GSO1,
17th Gurkha Infantry Division District
|
27.06.1955
|
-
|
27.08.1957
|
Commader
& Chief Instructor, School of Infantry, Southeastern Command, Netheravon
|
27.03.1958
|
-
|
29.03.1961
|
Commander,
44 Parachute Brigade Group (TA)
|
11.10.1961
|
-
|
20.02.1964
|
General
Officer Commanding, 52nd Lowland Division District & Infantry Division
|
25.02.1964
|
-
|
23.01.1967
|
General
Officer Commanding
Troops in Malta and Libya
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1965
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Comdr
Malta Land Force
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Deputy Lieutenant (DL), West Sussex, 1982. Cross of Grand Officer, SMO,
Malta, 1966.
Published: A drop too many (1980); Two
Para - Falklands (1983); Nearly there : some memoirs
(1991)
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Fuller,
Herbert John
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Cadet
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2nd Lt.
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07.12.1940
[160594]
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WS/Lt.
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07.06.1942
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T/Capt.
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15.03.1943 (reld
> 04.1946)
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MID
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11.01.1945
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Italy
43-44
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07.12.1940
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commissioned,
the Royal Ulster Rifles [emergency commission]
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?
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transferred
to The East Lancashire Regiment
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01.08.1942
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transferred
to the Parachute Regiment
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(09.1944)
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Intelligence
Officer, B Squadron (No. 1 Wing), The Glider Pilot Regiment (Arnhem)
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