Captain George E Hemelryk

George Edmund Hemelryk served as a Warrant Officer Class 2 prior to being granted an emergency commission into The Intelligence Corps in 1942.

He transferred to The Royal Signals later that year and volunteered for airborne forces towards the end of 1943, qualifying as a military parachutist on course 103 which ran at RAF Ringway in February 1944.

Hemelryk served as a Cyper Officer in C Section, 1 Company, Divisional Signals of 1st Airborne Division during Arnhem, where he was wounded and taken as a prisoner of war.

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  • HRH The Princess Royal with Officers of the 1st Airborne Divisional Signals, March 1944.
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P Vrolijk said:
Captain Hemelryk was as Cypher-officer part of HQ No.1 Company . The cypher section was also part of that HQ - Not of C-Section . Officialy 1st AB Div Signals had no C-Section. With a normal Infantry Division the line section was part of C-Section but that was not the case with Airborne Divisions in 1944. With the HQ 1st Airborne Divisions the Line-section was only about 16 men strong under a L/Sergeant with 3 detachmentes and were intergrated in the Office Section (part of A-Section) and unofficially called C-Section. E-Section had also a detachment and J-K-L Section had each also a Detachment. The Cypher Section was to code and decode messages received or being send by both A- and B- Section and was for that reason part of No.1 Coy HQ
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