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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...
Colonel Hilaro Nelson Barlow OBE served as the commanding officer of 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion from its formation in 1942 (transferring from the Somerset Light Infantry) until February 1944 when he was promoted to Second-in-Command of 1st Airlanding Brigade. He was temporarily attached as Deputy Commander of 6th Airlanding Brigade in Normandy from 30 June to 19 July 1944.He later took part in Operation Market Garden at Arnhem and briefly took command of 1st Airlanding Brigade when Maj Gen Urquhart became cut off from his troops.
Hilaro Barlow was killed by a mortar shell when he was sent forward to take command of 1st Parachute Brigade and co-ordinate an advance to the bridge. His body was never positively identified.
Colonel Barlow died on 19 September 1944, aged 37 years, and he is now commemorated on the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery Memorial, in the Netherlands.
Service History
- 1926 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (Second Lieutenant)
- 1929 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (Lieutenant)
- 1934 Adjutant, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (Major)
- 1937 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (Captain)
- 1938 Instructor, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (Captain)
- 1940 Acting (Major)
- 1942 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion (Lieutenant-Colonel)
- 1944 1st Airlanding Brigade (Colonel)
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