Lance Corporal Bernard B Smith

Bernard Bruce Smith was the son of Bernard and Olive Smith and the husband of Joyce Smith, of Reading, Berkshire. He enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps and volunteered for airborne forces.

Lance Corporal Smith successfully completed his glider training and was attached to H.Q. 1st Airborne Division, Royal Army Service Corps, and took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

L/Cpl Smith was killed in action on 22 September 1944, aged 28, and was given a field burial at the corner of Bothaweg and Oranjeweg, south of the Hartenstein Hotel, Oosterbeek, and was re-interred to Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery on 6 September 1945.

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