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Stone commemorating the formation of the Glider Pilot Regiment.

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Glider Pilot Memorial, Manchester Airport

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Heavy water cell from the Vermock plant that was target of Operation Freshman.

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Account of Operation Freshman.

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Detailed account of the ill fated Operation Freshman.

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Stone marking where 11 Op Freshman soldiers were executed by Germans.

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Memorial marking where 11 Op Freshman soldiers were executed by Germans.

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Stone in memory of the men who lost their lives on Operation Freshman.

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Memorial for men who lost their lives on Operation Freshman.

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Account of the use of Waco glider in the Sicily campaign.

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Glider Pilot Regiment Briefing: The Cricketing Glider Pilots

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Glider Pilot Regiment Briefing: Lt-Col S.C Griffiths Commanding No.2 Wing explains point with map

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Glider Pilot Regiment Briefing: Lt-Col S.C Griffith Commanding No.2 Wing explains point with map

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A Party of Glider Pilots being briefed for an exercise in early 1945

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Operation Market September 1944, Gliders land on crowded landing sites at Arnhem.

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Early Gliders at Ringway (Civilian Sail-planes)

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Lt-Col Ken Mead describes the load a Horsa Glider could carry

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Lt-Col Ken Mead decribes the glider take-off for D-Day

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Glider loading, flight and landing during Pre D-Day training

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Glider pilots with German prisoners near Hamminkeln railway station, March 1945.

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Brig Bellamy commands glider troops in Hamminkeln after its capture. March 1945.

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Gravestone to Unknown Glider Pilot Regiment soldier, Jonkerbos, nr Nijmegen

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Close-up of refurbished Double Hills Memorial

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Original Double Hills Market Garden Memorial

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Maj Gen Urquhart, former 1st Airborne Division Commander at Arnhem unveiling the Double Hills memorial in 1979

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Sculptor Roy Cleeves with Brig Mike Dauncey at Double Hills Memorial

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Gravestones of soldiers of the Double Hills glider crash

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Group photograph of Glider Pilots, including pilots of the Double Hills crash

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Group photograph of training Glider pilots

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Officers of B Squadron Glider Pilot Regiment briefing before an operation

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Army Flying Badge for 1st Pilot GPR

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Post War Glider Pilot Regiment Cap Badge

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Group photograph of Glider pilots

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Group photo of Glider pilots

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Army Flying Badge for 2nd Pilot GPR

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Original shoulder title for the Glider Pilot Regiment

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Personal account of SSgt Wallace Mackenzie, GPR

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Army Air Corps Cap Badge - wartime economy version

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Part of a group photograph of glider pilots

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Army Air Corps Cap Badge - wartime metal version

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Army Air Corps Cap Badge - Coloured Design

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Programme of "Unveiling of a Plaque" 1955

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Men of the 1st Bn, The Border Regt (Airborne) talk to a Glider Pilot at Netheravon, October 1942.

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9 Flight, G-Squadron, The Glider Pilot Regiment, June 1944.

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Citation for Distinguished Service Order awarded to Lt Dauncey for his actions at Arnhem, 1945.

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Glider Pilot Regiment report on Operation Market air and military by commander glider pilots

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Report on gliders operating on 1st Parachute Brigade's Op Faustian.

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No.10 Glider Pilot Course, RAF Booker, Buckinghamshire, 1942-43.

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Glider pilots pose for a group photo at Harwell.

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JCM Hutley Flying logbook entry Op. tonga

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JCM Hutley Flying logbook entry for Op. Market Garden

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S.Sgt A Harris head stone

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Eagle Magazine 1996

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S.Sgt M Leaver and tree in Oosterbeek 1996

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No1 Combined Course No5 GTS, Shobdon 27th April 1944

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S.Sgt M Leaver's logbook entry for 18 September 1944

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Mentioned in Dispatches fro Sgt C Palfreeman

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Glider Pilot Transfer Book with details of L Weeden

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Documents relating to the service of Sgt RG Hill

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Sgt RG Hill POW Post Cards

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Sgt RG Hill letters home

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Denzil Cooper

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A letter to Robert Plowman informing him of his son's death

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Letter to Robert Plowman, father of glider pilot Thomas Plowman from Lt. Col. John Place

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2 Squadron, 1st Battalion, The Glider Pilot Regiment. Putignano, Italy, November 1943.

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Grave of Captain Thomas Plowman at the Arnhem/ Oosterbeek war cemetery

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Record of Staff Sergeant Michie's training to use the WACO (Hadrian) Glider in 1945

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Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie's training to use the WACO (Hadrian) Glider in 1945

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Joseph Michie's painting of Horsa gliders being unloaded (2001)

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Joseph Michie's painting of paratroopers walking through a burning forest (2001)

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Joseph Michie's painting of Horsa gliders coming into land in a field with paratroopers disembarking (2001)

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Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie's training in a Tiger Moth to use Horsa gliders (1943)

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Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie during September 1943 including his flight to Arnhem

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Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie during September 1944 including his flight to Arnhem

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Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie during June 1944 including his aborted flight to Merville (FL in Odiham)

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Staff Sergeant Joe Michie recalls learning the new method of glider snatching in 1945 part 1

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Staff Sergeant Joe Michie recalls learning the new method of glider snatching in 1945 part 2

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OS Heavy Glider Conversion Unit 27 June 1943

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Heavy Glider Conversion Unit 27 in June 1943 at RAF Brize Norton

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SSgt Wastell, Log Book 2, Sqn Short Sterling Tug Crew to Arnhem. (1940)

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Four German SS prisoners are brought into the Divisional POW cage by glider pilots.

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"The Master Race at work" - two German prisoners chopping wood for a field cooker to feed their own men.

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Photo of a 'Jeep patrol setting out to go into Arnhem'.

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Some members of the Glider Pilot Regiment who took part in Operation Freshman.

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Group photo of men from the Glider Pilot Regiment, Shrewton, 1942

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Group photograph of Heavy Glider Conversion Unit course, Brize Norton, 1942

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Group portrait of glider pilot training course, probably 1942

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Group photograph of No 102 Glider Development Trial Unit (GDTU), Course 4, c. 1942

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Group photograph of B Flight on training course at 16 EFTS RAF Burnaston, 1942

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Group photograph of pilots course at Booker EFTS, July 1942

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Newspaper cutting about the death of Lt Col John Rock, October 1942

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Postagram from the Air Ministry to Army Co-operation Command HQ. 31/12/1942.

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Group photo of No 7 Course at Glider Training School, RAF Kiddlington, 1943

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Group photo of 4 Flight, 2 Squadron, 1st Glider Battalion, Patignano, Italy, 1943

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Course 16 at No 5 Glider Training School, Shobdon Airfield, June 1943.

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Photo of D-Day training map titled 'Oslo', 1944

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Glider pilots homeward bound after landing in Normandy on D-Day, June 1944

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Hamilcar gliders carrying 6 Airborne Armoured Recce Regiment landing in Normandy,

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Members of E Sqn No 2 Wing Glider Pilot Regiment return from Normandy, 1944.

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Section of crashed Hosra, signed by J.C. Hutley and crew

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A British Glider pilot lights the cigarette of a female German telegraphists taken PoW.

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A British Glider pilot lights the cigarette of a female German telegraphist taken PoW at Arnhem

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Officers of No 1 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment, confer near Arnhem, 18 September 1944.

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Extract from 'When Dragons Flew' of 3-inch Mortar Platoon members, 1st Battalion Border Regiment, September 1944

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Arnhem Commemoration Dinner menu, GPR Sgt's Mess, 18 October 1944

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Glider pilots attend their investiture at Buckingham Palace, December 1944

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Glider Pilots from B Squadron receive a briefing, 1945

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Servicemen celebrate VE Day, May 1945

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Maj Ian Toler with a Glider Pilot, 1946

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Dutch Bronze Lion medal citation for RSM Briody, Arnhem

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Commemorative Cover Glider Pilot Regiment signed by Shan Hackett

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Newspaper cutting about Richard Wilson from the Fife Free Press, 1994.

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Pegasus Bridge Commemorative Cover

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GPR Op Varsity Service of Remembrance Hymn Book, March 2000

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Refurbished Double Hills Memorial, Dec 2009

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The 4 Regt AAC Escort to The AAC Guidon at Marks Hall Estate, Essex, March 2010

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Stone commemorating the formation of the Glider Pilot Regiment.

Glider Pilot Memorial, Manchester Airport

Heavy water cell from the Vermock plant that was target of Operation Freshman.

Account of Operation Freshman.

Detailed account of the ill fated Operation Freshman.

Memorial marking where 11 Op Freshman soldiers were executed by Germans.

Memorial for men who lost their lives on Operation Freshman.

Account of the use of Waco glider in the Sicily campaign.

Glider Pilot Regiment Briefing: The Cricketing Glider Pilots

Glider Pilot Regiment Briefing: Lt-Col S.C Griffith Commanding No.2 Wing explains point with map

A Party of Glider Pilots being briefed for an exercise in early 1945

Glider pilots with German prisoners near Hamminkeln railway station, March 1945.

Brig Bellamy commands glider troops in Hamminkeln after its capture. March 1945.

Gravestone to Unknown Glider Pilot Regiment soldier, Jonkerbos, nr Nijmegen

Close-up of refurbished Double Hills Memorial

Original Double Hills Market Garden Memorial

Maj Gen Urquhart, former 1st Airborne Division Commander at Arnhem unveiling the Double Hills memorial in 1979

Sculptor Roy Cleeves with Brig Mike Dauncey at Double Hills Memorial

Gravestones of soldiers of the Double Hills glider crash

Group photograph of Glider Pilots, including pilots of the Double Hills crash

Group photograph of training Glider pilots

Officers of B Squadron Glider Pilot Regiment briefing before an operation

Army Flying Badge for 1st Pilot GPR

Post War Glider Pilot Regiment Cap Badge

Group photograph of Glider pilots

Group photo of Glider pilots

Army Flying Badge for 2nd Pilot GPR

Original shoulder title for the Glider Pilot Regiment

Personal account of SSgt Wallace Mackenzie, GPR

Army Air Corps Cap Badge - wartime economy version

Part of a group photograph of glider pilots

Army Air Corps Cap Badge - wartime metal version

Army Air Corps Cap Badge - Coloured Design

Programme of "Unveiling of a Plaque" 1955

Men of the 1st Bn, The Border Regt (Airborne) talk to a Glider Pilot at Netheravon, October 1942.

9 Flight, G-Squadron, The Glider Pilot Regiment, June 1944.

Citation for Distinguished Service Order awarded to Lt Dauncey for his actions at Arnhem, 1945.

Glider Pilot Regiment report on Operation Market air and military by commander glider pilots

Personal account of Sgt. Lawrence Goldthorpe (4546883) No 2 Wing E Squadron.

Report on the fate of troops missing from Operation Freshman.

Operation order for Operation Freshman.

Detailed report on Operation Freshman.

Report on gliders operating on 1st Parachute Brigade's Op Faustian.

No.10 Glider Pilot Course, RAF Booker, Buckinghamshire, 1942-43.

Glider pilots pose for a group photo at Harwell.

JCM Hutley Flying logbook entry Op. tonga

JCM Hutley Flying logbook entry for Op. Market Garden

S.Sgt A Harris head stone

Eagle Magazine 1996

S.Sgt M Leaver and tree in Oosterbeek 1996

No1 Combined Course No5 GTS, Shobdon 27th April 1944

S.Sgt M Leaver's logbook entry for 18 September 1944

Mentioned in Dispatches fro Sgt C Palfreeman

Glider Pilot Transfer Book with details of L Weeden

Documents relating to the service of Sgt RG Hill

Sgt RG Hill POW Post Cards

Sgt RG Hill letters home

Denzil Cooper

Letter to Robert Plowman, father of glider pilot Thomas Plowman from Lt. Col. John Place

2 Squadron, 1st Battalion, The Glider Pilot Regiment. Putignano, Italy, November 1943.

Grave of Captain Thomas Plowman at the Arnhem/ Oosterbeek war cemetery

Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie's training to use the WACO (Hadrian) Glider in 1945

Joseph Michie's painting of Horsa gliders being unloaded (2001)

Joseph Michie's painting of paratroopers walking through a burning forest (2001)

Joseph Michie's painting of Horsa gliders coming into land in a field with paratroopers disembarking (2001)

Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie's training in a Tiger Moth to use Horsa gliders (1943)

Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie during September 1944 including his flight to Arnhem

Flight log of Staff Sergeant Michie during June 1944 including his aborted flight to Merville (FL in Odiham)

Staff Sergeant Joe Michie recalls learning the new method of glider snatching in 1945 part 1

Staff Sergeant Joe Michie recalls learning the new method of glider snatching in 1945 part 2

Heavy Glider Conversion Unit 27 in June 1943 at RAF Brize Norton

SSgt Wastell, Log Book 2, Sqn Short Sterling Tug Crew to Arnhem. (1940)

Four German SS prisoners are brought into the Divisional POW cage by glider pilots.

"The Master Race at work" - two German prisoners chopping wood for a field cooker to feed their own men.

Photo of a 'Jeep patrol setting out to go into Arnhem'.

Group photo of men from the Glider Pilot Regiment, Shrewton, 1942

Group photograph of Heavy Glider Conversion Unit course, Brize Norton, 1942

Group portrait of glider pilot training course, probably 1942