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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...
Corporal Thomas Bedford, son of Edgar and Ada May Bedford, of Fratton, Portsmouth, served with 11th Parachute Battalion. He took part in the Battle of Arnhem, during Op Market Garden.
He died on 18 September 1944, aged 22 years old. First buried along Benedendorosweg, approximatley 100yrs east of the Oosterbeek Church. He is now buried at Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Arnhem.
Service History
- 1944 11th Parachute Battalion (Corporal)