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Captain Gordon Spencer Sheill MC was serving with 225 Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC, when he died of wounds on 24 March 1945 during Operation Varsity.

General Bernard Montgomery and others in a quarry at Ercarde in Normandy, 16 July 1944.

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Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history. On a single day, over 16,000 men were inserted by gli...
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General Bernard Montgomery and others in a quarry at Ercarde in Normandy, 16 July 1944.
General Bernard Montgomery and others in a quarry at Ercarde in Normandy, 16 July 1944.