Members of 8th (Midland Counties) Parachute Battalion, Tilshead, circa 1944.

Editor's Note
Pre Normandy photograph
The four signatures on the back of the photograph are by:
Major George Hewetson (C Coy Commander; he later succeeded Alistair Pearson as battalion commander in 1944)
Lt CW Brown (Commander of No 9 Platoon C Coy)
Lt RG Ellen (Commander of No 7 Platoon in C Coy)
AP Peters (CQMS C Coy)

Although a note on a similar photograph records the photograph was taken in 1942, it appears to have been taken in early 1944 (based on the parachute course dates of two of the personnel in the photograph).

Identifications supplied by Capt Richard Fry, who was in the photograph.