Private Eric Sell

Eric Sell was enlisted into The South Wales Borderers in World War II and volunteered for airborne forces.

He qualified as a military parachutist on course 92 which ran at RAF Ringway from 17 November to 3 December 1943 and was posted to 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion, with whom he fought during the campaigns in North West Europe in 1944-45.

Eric Sell died on 24 March 1945, aged just 19 years on the first day of Operation Varsity, and is now commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial.

Memorial photograph courtesy of CWGC.