Signalman Stanley Courtney

Stanley Courtney was the son of Charles and Annie Courtney, of Hinckley, Leicestershire. He enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment and volunteered for airborne forces.

Signalman Courtney successfully completed parachute training at RAF Ringway, on course number 50 from 8 to 22 February 1943. His course report stated “Slow thinker, but keen hard worker”. He was posted to 6th Airborne Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals, attached to 9th Parachute Regiment, and took part in Operation Overlord (Normandy).

Sigmn Courtney was killed in action on 9 June 1944, (His headstone states that he was killed on 13 June. This is an error,)* aged 23, and was given a field burial in Breville, France, and re-interred to Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France on 3 July 1945.

* See "The day the Devils Dropped In"  page 204.

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