Lance Sergeant John T Sullivan

John Thomas Sullivan was the son of Thomas and Frances Sullivan and the husband of Agnes Sullivan, of Liverpool. He enlisted in the Royal Engineers and volunteered for airborne forces.

Lance Sergeant Sullivan successfully completed his parachute training on course number 56 at RAF Kabrit, Egypt, and was posted to 11th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. He took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

L/Sgt Sullivan was killed in action on 23 September 1944, aged 34, and was given a field burial 200 yards east of the railway viaduct, Klingelbeekseweg, Oosterbeek, in the garden of a house called Casablanca, and was reinterred to Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery on 27 May 1946.

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