Private Ivor Rowbery

Ivor Rowbery, son of Arthur Thomas and Lilian May Rowbery, of Wolverhampton, enlisted into the South Staffordshire Regiment.

He volunteered for airborne forces and took part in the Battle of Arnhem, during Op Market Garden.

22 year old Private Rowberry was Killed in Action on 22 September 1944, when a mortar bomb hit his gun pit. He was given a field burial near the Old Church and not the hotel as reported by the Common Wealth Graves Commission. He was later reinterned into Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Arnhem on 7 August 1945.

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