Stanley Clitherow

Stanley Clitherow was born on 18 September 1922. He enlisted in the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry in January 1941, and later volunteered for The Parachute Regiment.

Private Clitherow was posted to the Defence Platoon, HQ 1st Airborne Division and went to North Africa.

In September 1944 he parachuted into Arnhem, and was wounded in the knee by shrapnel. He managed to withdraw across The Rhine.

Lance Corporal Clitherow was released from service in August 1946.

Stanley married Doreen and had three children: Cathy, John and Mark. After the war he worked for George W King and British Aerospace before his retirement.

By Rebecca Blackburn with information supplied by the Clitherow family

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1st Airborne Division (Lance Corporal)

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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Italy

The Italians had capitulated while the force was still at sea. The sinking of HMS Abdiel by a mine in the harbour, however, resulted in the loss of 130 soldiers from 6th (Royal Welch) Parachute Battalion including their Commanding Officer.

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North Africa (Operation Torch)

On 12 November the 3rd Parachute Battalion (3 Para Bn) jumped onto and seized the vital airfield at Bone between Algiers and Tunis, arriving barely before German paratroopers deployed for the same mission.

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Stan Clitherow at Fulbeck Hall with Nazi plaque he brought back from Nijmegen in 1944, c1990.

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Doreen and Stan Clitherow at Fulbeck Hall, c1990s.

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Newspaper cutting about the 50th Anniversary of Arnhem, from 1993.

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