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Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)
1st Allied Airborne Corps, which included the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, was tasked to secure the main canal...
Jeffery Byford volunteered for the airborne forces from the Royal West Kent Regiment and was posted 11th Bn The Parachute Regiment. He was jump trained at RAF Kabrit on course 55.
Shot and injured Operation Market Garden in September 1944
POW Stalag 11 A prisoner number 90216 recorded 8 October 1944
Arrived back in UK 17 May 1945. Jeffery joined the Reserves 30 August 1948.
Service History
- 1943 11th Parachute Battalion (Corporal)
