Private William J Snow

William John Snow was the son of Joseph and Anne Snow, of Caversham, Reading. He enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Snow successfully completed his parachute training at RAF Kabrit, Egypt, and was attached to 11th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, and took part in Operation Market Garden (Arnhem).

Pte Snow, being a POW, escaped together with an unknown person, and was last seen in the area of Deventer. Apparently, he was taken prisoner again, because after that he is known to have been in Stalag XIIA (March 1945)(Roll of Honour, 5th revised edition, 2011). The CWGC shows his date of death as 26 May 1945, aged 25, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial to the missing.

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