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Account and Diary of Pte E Short, Captured at Arnhem, Detailing His Time in a PoW Camp

In April 1940, aged 20, I received notification from the War Office that I was to report to Bedford Army Barracks to start Army service.

An account of events at the HMIS Hindustan incident 22 February 1946

By Captain John Marshall, OC ‘C’ Troop, 554 Battery, 159 Para Lt Regt RA

Abridged memoir of Sgt AR Parsons on his transfer to and training with 151 Parachute Battalion, India, 1942

This is an abridged extract of my father’s memoirs. By 1941 my father had already been in India for 6 years, having arrived in Karachi as a boy soldier aged 15years.

Account of Capt John Wagstaff, 225 PFA, Normandy, 6 June 1944

Account of Capt Wagstaff, 225 PFA, Normandy, 6 June 1944

A Tribute to Tim

Firstly, I would like to thank you all for coming to-day to pay tribute to Tim, I know that many of you have travelled significant distances and gone to a lot of trouble to be here.

A profile of David Hardman

David Hardman was born on 22 December 1959 at Hamilton, Scotland, the youngest of a family of four, and spent his early years on the Beechfield small holding in Meikle Earnock Road.

Account of a visit to Neustadt on the 50th Anniversary

As 1995 began, the plans for the year ahead were discussed April, our pilgrimage to Neustadt; June, return to Normandy for the D-Day Services; July, Airborne Forces day, and the Reunion Dinner in A

Account of Arnhem by Captain Richard Bingley

Report about the experience of the 6th Platoon S Company of the 1st Para battalion by : Captain Richard Bingley.

Account by Trooper Dale-Glossop

The 3rd The Kings Own Hussars moved down from Adlum in Syria to Sarafand (the Aldershot of Palestine) in the autumn of 1945 joining the 6th Airborne Division, as the only remaining Airborne Cavalry Re

A personal account of the Sicily landings

Sgt Callaway was one of 17 NCOs who left Company Headquarters on 13 July 1943 for the airborne landings on Sicily.

A biographical profile of Lt J R Evans.

Born 12 September 1911. Died North Africa, 8 March 1943. Hooker. Newport High School 1927. Welsh Secondary Schools 1926,1927.

Article on Noel Ross from The Daily Telegraph, 12 June 2012.

From The Daily Telegraph 12 June 2012 . NOEL ROSS who died aged 91, won an exceptional Miliatry Medal with 156 Parachute Battalion at Arnhem.

A personal account of experiences in Normandy 1944

I was then a captain Royal Signals, Adjutant of 6 Airborne Divisional Signals, and was admitted to the planning stage at Syrencote House in February.

A personal obituary of Harry Houghton

By his daughter Jeanie Holland

AFEE reports held at the National Archives Kew in the AVIA Series 21 files

The following table lists AFEE reports held at the National Archives Kew in the AVIA Series 21 files.

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Foreword for Pegasus Magazine by General Sir John Reith KCB CBE, former Colonel Commandant The Parachute Regiment.

Account of Operation Gabriel by Brigadier Mike Wharmby.

In the immediate aftermath of Rwanda’s hard fought civil war (1) and the terrifying genocide which accompanied it, some 650 UK personnel from 5 Airborne Brigade joined the UN Assistance Mission to

A brief history of the Special Reconnaissance Squadron, RAC.

A Country Boy – an account by Lewis Kemp

I was born in a Leicestershire Village September 1924, left school at 14 years of age, no qualifications, and started work on a poultry farm 10 shillings, i.e. 50p a week.

An account of Operation Market Garden, by Sapper L Plummer.

We embarked on our planes from Barkston Heath Aerodrome in Lincolnshire on September 17 1944.

An account of Operation Market Garden, by Johnny Peters.

In the words of Johnny Peters 30 June 2008 Preparation for Operation Market Garden

An account of 6 June 1944 by Major J Taylor MC.

We moved off from the DZ at about, I should imagine, 02.40 hours and contacted the Brigade Commander on the bridges.

A personal account of the Ardennes and Rhine Crossing with 2 FOU, by Major Harry Rice.

I had the privilege and good fortune, as a young Battery Commander of 24 in a Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, to be appointed in July 1944 to command a totally new unit called 2nd Forward Observer

An account of Lt Pat Glover and Myrtle, HQ Coy, 10th Para Bn, 1944.

In December 1943 Lieutenant Glove returned with the battalion to England, where they were billeted in the area around Oakham in Rutland. Battalion Headquarters was in Somerby House.

An interview with Ron Rouse

I was conscripted in February 1940, and joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, we did three months training in Wales.

Airborne Hang Up Recovery Trials by Sqn Leader Frank Hayward

In the spring of 1944 I was serving with 575 Sqn at RAF Broadwell (equipped with C-47 Dakotas) and I remember that on one practice jump over the UK prior to D-Day, one paratrooper became caught up

An account of the Normandy landings in Major-General Richard Gale’s own words

On 2 June, when Gale visited the 9th Parachute Battalion at RAF Broadwell, he received an enthusiastic reception and said of Normandy, "The Hun thinks only a bloody fool will go there.

A personal account of Lt Rendell’s part in the capture of the airfield at Depienne, written in 1990.

‘I think we must have been following Bn HQ planes, I remember being briefed to jump when the CO jumped.

A personal account of Captain Lewis Golden, written 2005.

The following is Captain Golden’s personal account, written in November 2005:

A Formidable Assignment – Operation Varsity, a Glider Pilot’s Perspective, by Des Page.

I was born and educated in Maidstone, Kent, but with my mother and father, moved to Birmingham in 1937.

A personal account of Pte W Aldcroft's experiences in Arnhem

Early one morning on the 17th of September 1944 the 2nd Battalion of 1st Parachute Brigade landed in Holland at the Town of Arnhem to lead the assault to take two bridges across the Rhine.

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

The year 1977 saw the release of the movie A Bridge Too Far, which now ranks as one of the epics of World War II.