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Sidney F Major served with 1st Airborne Divisional Signals.On 17 September 1944, men of 1st Airborne Divisional Signals deployed to Arnhem for Op Market Garden in glider and parachute formations from RAF Down Ampney.

Sgt Major was later taken as a PoW and sent to Stalag XIB in Fallingbostel.

Sergeant Sidney Major

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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...
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Group photo of 1st Airlanding Brigade Signal Section posing with a captured flag, Italy, October 1943
Group photo of 1st Airlanding Brigade Signal Section posing with a captured flag, Italy, October 1943