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Sicily (Operation Husky)
Speed was essential to prevent the consolidation of Italian and German defences facing a rapid pincer movement launched from ...
George Harris Burdett enlisted at Grantham into the Northamptonshire Regiment in November 1941.Pte Burdett volunteered for airborne forces and was posted to 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment in July 1942 and took part in the campaigns in Sicily, Italy and Arnhem.
In 1943 Pte Burdett was a member of B Company and in Intelligence Section, Battalion Headquarter Company for Operation Market Garden at Arnhem.
Acting Sergeant Burdett was demobbed in 1947.
Service History
- Date not known 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment (Acting Sergeant)
- 1941 The Northamptonshire Regiment (Private)
- 1942 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment (Private)
