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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...
Stephen George Morgan enlisted on 8 July 1943, four days before his 18th birthday.After sixteen weeks training with the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry in Colchester he volunteered for airborne forces.
He went to RAF Ringway and undertook parachute training course 106, which ran from 6 to 16 March 1944. The instructors’ report states ‘Morgan: Diligent, quick – responsive good performer’.
Pte Morgan was eventually posted to the 2nd Parachute Battalion and took part in Operation Market Garden, where he was captured and held as a prisoner of war.
Read Pte Morgan’s personal account below.
Service History
- Date not known Oxs and Bucks Light Infantry (Private)
- Date not known The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Private)
