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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...
Lance Corporal David Dadswell was the son of William Alfred and Nellie Dadswell, and husband of Doris E Dadswell, of Crowborough, Sussex. He served with the Royal Army Service Corps, attached to 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He took part in the glider insertion to the Battle of Arnhem, during Op Market Garden.Lance Corporal Dadswell died during the Battle between 22-3 September 1944, aged 33 years old. After an initial field burial near the Schoonord Hotel, he was reinterred at Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Arnhem.
Service History
- Date not known Royal Army Service Corps (Lance Corporal)
- Date not known 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance RAMC (Lance Corporal)