Staff Sergeant Roy Samuel Luff

Roy Samuel Luff was the son of Samuel and Mary Elizabeth Luff, of Buckland, Portsmouth, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery and volunteered for airborne forces.

Staff Sergeant Luff successfully completed glider pilot training and was posted to 1st Wing, The Glider Pilot Regiment and took part in Operation Overlord (Normandy).

S/Sgt Luff was killed in action on 6 June 1944, aged 23, and was given a field burial in the grounds of Grangues Chateau and re-interred to Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France on 1 June 1945.

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