Acting Corporal Robert Stoodley

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Robert Arthur Stoodley enlisted into The Highland Regiment and then volunteered for airborne forces during the Second World War.

He qualified as a military parachutist on course 71 which ran at RAF Ringway from 5 to 17 July 1943 and was posted to the 9th (Essex) Parachute Battalion.

Bob Stoodley transferred to the 22nd Independent Parachute Company (Pathfinders) and served as a Lance Corporal in Lt Bob Midwood's No 2 Platoon. He went on the first pathfinder plane (an Albermarle of 295 Sqn from RAF Harwell) to DZ K in Normandy, as part of Lt Midwood's stick, where he was wounded and taken PoW.

He was discharged with the rank of War Substantive Corporal in August 1946.

He gently slipped away from this world on 28 August 2021 For a short film of his funeral please use this link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz44U8gHrk4