Robert Claude Bondy, son of Charles and Florence Bondy, enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps and then volunteered for airborne forces.
Driver Bondy successfully completed his parachute training at RAF Ringway on course number 4 from 17 to 23 December 1941 and was posted to 250 (Airborne) Light Composite Company, 2 Platoon, Royal Army Service Corps, and took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).
Dvr Bondy was killed in action on 17 September 1944, aged 35. The glider he was in crashed on the LZ (Landing Zone), north west of Wolfheze, and he was given a field burial beside a road at the rear of the Bunderkamp Hotel, Oosterbeek. His remains were reinterred to Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery on 8 July 1946.
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