Norman T Connold | ParaData

Norman Thomas Connold, son of Harold Thomas Connold was born in East Grinstead and worked as a photographic printer before enlisting into The Royal Sussex Regiment.

He volunteered for airborne forces in late 1943.

Private Connold qualified as a military parachutist on Course 99 which ran at RAF Ringway from 19 January to 3 February 1944. The course instructors' notes record: ‘Enthusiastic and confident, standard of jumping above average.’

He was initially posted to No 1 Airborne Forces Holding Unit until an eventual posting to No 9 Platoon, C Company, The 3rd Parachute Battalion.

Pte Connold jumped into Arnhem on Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944 and later became a Prisoner of War on 25 September.

In September 1945 he was posted to B Company, the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) and went to Palestine. L/Cpl Connold ended his military career in the Company Office dealing with releases etc.

By Wendy George

1944
The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) (Private)

Operations

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Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)

1st Allied Airborne Corps, which included the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, was tasked to secure the main canal and river crossings between Eindhoven and Arnhem.

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Palestine

Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme dissident Zionist groups such as IZL (Irgun Zwai Leumi) and the Stern Gang, all seeking to promote their aims through violence.

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Prisoner of War Dog Tag for Pte Connold, Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, 1944.

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No 9 Platoon, C Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion, taken at Spalding, Lincolnshire, in July 1944

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Lance Corporal Norman T Connold

26 Jun 1925 - 15 Nov 1967

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