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Private Robert Acheson Dickson was a Clerk with No 2 Section, 225 Para Field Ambulance RAMC.He served throughout the 6th Airborne operations in North West Europe to Normandy, the Ardennes, Rhine Crossing and to Wismar during the March to the Baltic as the war came to an end.

Private Robert Acheson Dickson

Service History

Operations

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Advance to the Baltic
The airborne soldiers were well suited to exploit the fluid situation that occurred following the collapse of the Rhine barri...

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Far East
The 5th Parachute Brigade was sent to the Far East in preparation for a potential invasion of Japan. However, only the advanc...

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Normandy (Operation Overlord)
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe commonly known as D-Day, saw the 6th Airborne Division in action f...

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Ardennes
After the Allied landings in Normandy and subsequent advance through France and Belgium, the German Army had succeeded in sta...

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Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history. On a single day, over 16,000 men were inserted by gli...
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Group Photograph of 225 Parachute Field Ambulance, January 1944
Group Photograph of 225 Parachute Field Ambulance, January 1944