Remembering Arnhem

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  1. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    Remembering Operation Market Garden which began 63 years ago today.

    In particular:

    <table class="datatable" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" width="97%"><tbody><tr id="tr_name"><th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Name:</th> <td id="td_name">PICTON, RAYMOND KENNETH</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_initials"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Initials:</th> <td id="td_initials">R K</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_nationality"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Nationality:</th> <td id="td_nationality">United Kingdom</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_rank"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Rank:</th> <td id="td_rank">Staff Serjeant</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_regiment"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Regiment/Service:</th> <td id="td_regiment">Glider Pilot Regiment, A.A.C.</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_unittext"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Unit Text:</th> <td id="td_unittext">1st Wing</td> </tr> <!-- <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="left" width="30%">Force:</td> <td id="td_force"></td> </tr>--> <tr id="tr_age"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Age:</th> <td id="td_age">23</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_death"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Date of Death:</th> <td id="td_death">25/09/1944</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_service"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Service No:</th> <td id="td_service">894207</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_information"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Additional information:</th> <td id="td_information">Son of Percival and Mabel Picton; husband of Margaret Picton, of Swindon, Wiltshire.</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_type"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Casualty Type:</th> <td id="td_type">Commonwealth War Dead</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_grave"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Grave/Memorial Reference:</th> <td id="td_grave">3. A. 10.</td> </tr> <tr id="tr_cemetery"> <th align="right" valign="top" width="30%"> Cemetery:</th> <td id="td_cemetery">ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <input name="target_h" id="target_h" type="hidden"><input name="certificate_h" id="certificate_h" value="certificate.aspx?casualty=2661416" type="hidden"><input name="errmsg" id="errmsg" type="hidden"><!--<input name="results" id="results" type="button" class="formbutton" onclick="navigateElement('target_h');" value="Search Results" /> -->
     
  2. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    Couple of photos of the Arnhem area,
     

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  3. djcrtoye

    djcrtoye Member

    Although my granda Pte Dominic Toye RAMC didn't die, he did spend the rest of the war as a pow, he was attched to 7th KOSB.
     
  4. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    If I could recommend a book to read about Arnhem try "It never Snows in September" by Robert Kershaw. It is an excellent account of how the Germans managed to hold the line in Sept 1944 after the rout from France the previous month. Well worth a read.
     
  5. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

  6. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    Good web link Paul. That site certainly has potential although there is work to be done on it still.
     
  7. handtohand22

    handtohand22 Senior Member

    My uncle, Sgt Jim Gamble was one of the 'First In' as mentioned in a couple of books. He was in 21st Independent Parachute Company. He survived the experience but never talked about it.
    Attached is his wedding photo from 1944 to Susan and a photo from 21st time in Norway near the end of the war.
     

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  8. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Anybody know of a good site where I can read soldiers personal accounts of landing and fighting on this day 1944?

    cheers
    marcus
     
  9. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    My uncle, Sgt Jim Gamble was one of the 'First In' as mentioned in a couple of books. He was in 21st Independent Parachute Company. He survived the experience but never talked about it.
    Attached is his wedding photo from 1944 to Susan and a photo from 21st time in Norway near the end of the war.
    http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/other-anniversaries/6907d1190044662t-remembering-arnhem-jimwedding443-jpg http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/attachments/other-anniversaries/6908d1190044684t-remembering-arnhem-jims5three13-jpg

    Coincidentally I was just looking at details of a forthcoming book on the 21st on that excellent website:
    Defending Arnhem books_© 2007
     
  10. djcrtoye

    djcrtoye Member

  11. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Paul,
    Did you pick a Swindon lad on my behalf?
    I wonder if Ray Picton took off from one of our local airstrips just north of Swindon.
     
  12. Paul Reed

    Paul Reed Ubique

    No mate, I have some of his gear he took into Arnhem. It came out, but he didn't. He was a D Day vet as well, having dropped into Ranville with 6AB. He was co-pilot, his pilot got out. Ray Picton was originally buried in the grounds of Oosterbeek church.
     

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