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Alfred Douglas Finucane enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps and volunteered for airborne forces during World War II.He qualified as a military parachutist on course 21/22 at RAF Ringway in August 1942 and subsequently served with 16 Parachute Field Ambulance. 

Sgt Finucane served on attachment with units of the 1st Parachute Brigade, at brigade HQ and then 1st Para Bn, in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Arnhem.

He was captured by the Germans at Arnhem and subsequently held as a prisoner of war.

Sergeant Alfred Finucane

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Sicily (Operation Husky)
Speed was essential to prevent the consolidation of Italian and German defences facing a rapid pincer movement launched from ...

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North Africa (Operation Torch)
On 12 November the 3rd Parachute Battalion (3 Para Bn) jumped onto and seized the vital airfield at Bone between Algiers and ...

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Italy
The Italians had capitulated while the force was still at sea. The sinking of HMS Abdiel by a mine in the harbour, however, r...

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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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Sgt Alfred Finucane, Italy, 1943.
Sgt Alfred Finucane, Italy, 1943.