Ronald Albert Frank Lansdowne son of Ernest and Alice Lansdowne, of Wells, Somerset enlisted into The Somerset Light Infantry.

Private Lansdowne later served with 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry. He was subsequently attached to HQ 1st Airborne Division, Defence Platoon and took part in the Battle of Arnhem, during Op Market Garden.

His body was recovered from the river Lek near Vianen on 27 September 1944 and it is believed he drowned during the withdrawal across the river during the night of 25/26 September.

21 year old Pte Lansdowne was buried at Hagenstein by the side of a brickworks chimney stack, a 100 yards from the south bank of the river Lek.

On 27 November 1946 he was reinterned at Amersfoort (Oud Leusden) General Cemetery. Amersfoort is a town 50 kilometres south-east of Amsterdam.