Joseph Arthur Condliffe, son of Joseph and Betsy Condliffe of Stoke-on-Trent, enlisted into The Essex Regiment.Private Condliffe volunteered for airborne forces and undertook Parachute Training Course 57 at RAF Ringway between 22 March and 11 April 1943. His course report stated that he was ‘Steady. Determined. Average.’

He was posted to 4th Parachute Battalion and served in Italy, on Operation Dragoon in the South of France and Operation Manna in Greece.

Private Condcliffe received gunshot wounds to the head and died of wounds on 6 December 1944, aged 23 years old. He is now buried at Phaleron War Cemetery, Greece.

Grave photo by Dave Finch.