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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...
Dennis Collier enlisted into the Dorsetshire Regiment.
Private Collier then volunteered for airborne forces and undertook parachute training course number 86 at RAF Ringway between 4 and 19 October 1943. His course report stated: 'hard working, shows no signs of nervousness.’
After initially being posted to the Holding Wing, Pte Collier went to 195 Airlanding Field Ambulance RAMC.
At some point he was posted to 156 Parachute Battalion and went with them on Operation Market Garden. Pte Collier was made a Prisoner of War at Arnhem.
Pte Collier was demobbed in December 1946.
Service History
- Date not known 195 Airlanding Field Ambulance RAMC (Private)
- 1944 156 Parachute Battalion (Private)
