Private Ronald S Ford

Ronald Stanley Ford, son of Henry and Evelyn Ford, of Wharfedale, Yorkshire, West Riding, enlisted into The Royal Scots Fusiliers and later volunteered for Airborne Forces.

Private Ford successfully completed parachute training on course number 124 at RAF Ringway from 10 to 22 July 1944. His course report stated ‘good performer, confident and reliable’. He was posted to A Company, 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion.

He took part in the 6th Airborne Division response to the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, during Winter 1944-5.

Pte Ford was killed in action on 4 January 1945, aged 25, and was buried in Charnley Church Vault, near Tellin, Belgium. He was later reinterred in Hotton War Cemetery on 30 May 1947.