Lance Corporal Walter H Stanley

Walter Hickman Stanley, husband of Elsie Stanley, enlisted into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then volunteered for airborne forces.

Lance Corporal Stanley successfully completed his parachute training at RAF Ringway on course number 44 from 28 December 1942 to 8 January 1943. His course report stated “landings very good”. He was then posted to B Company, 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment, and took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

L/Cpl Stanley and others were fighting from a ditch in some fields just north of the river Rhine bank, when a tank shell exploded nearby. He was badly hit, and died soon after (Battle of Arnhem Roll of Honour, 5th edition, 2011). He was killed in action on 20 September 1944, aged 34, and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial to the missing.

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