Arnhem Regimental Aid Post

Discussion in 'Airborne' started by Medic7922, Nov 6, 2011.

  1. bart belonje

    bart belonje Junior Member

    Hi Medic7922,

    maybe you can help me out with this one; Angela DiMarco, daughter of Luis DiMarco private 1st Battalion, is looking for the place discribed by her father. After the confused fighting around the Eusebius Hospital, Luis got separated from his CO Lt-Colonel David Dobie (Luis was his signalmen) and he mentioned a house on the Klingelbeekseweg between this road and the river Rhine which was a RAP (this was written with coloured chalk on the back door. This house was in a dense wood set on a lawn of uncut grass.
    On the road were vehicles standing in a row with troops sleeping beside., probably South Staffs. I know of the 11th Battalion RAP on the other side of the road, mentioned in Stuart Mawson's book. Do you know the exact location of this RAP? is this house and garage still standing? And do you know of this RAP in this house, to my knowledge St-Eusebiushouse (or east of this the Oolgaardthouse) I welcome any information which leads to solving this piece of the puzzle for Luis and his daughter.
     
  2. TomTAS

    TomTAS Very Senior Member

    Bert,

    Will check my Oosterbeek map to see if that house is on this map, most of the damage houses that were around Oosterbeek are shown on this map... I remember it does go a good way out so will see...

    Cheers
    Tom
     
  3. Wills

    Wills Very Senior Member

  4. airborne medic

    airborne medic Very Senior Member

    Hi Medic7922,

    maybe you can help me out with this one; Angela DiMarco, daughter of Luis DiMarco private 1st Battalion, is looking for the place discribed by her father. After the confused fighting around the Eusebius Hospital, Luis got separated from his CO Lt-Colonel David Dobie (Luis was his signalmen) and he mentioned a house on the Klingelbeekseweg between this road and the river Rhine which was a RAP (this was written with coloured chalk on the back door. This house was in a dense wood set on a lawn of uncut grass.
    On the road were vehicles standing in a row with troops sleeping beside., probably South Staffs. I know of the 11th Battalion RAP on the other side of the road, mentioned in Stuart Mawson's book. Do you know the exact location of this RAP? is this house and garage still standing? And do you know of this RAP in this house, to my knowledge St-Eusebiushouse (or east of this the Oolgaardthouse) I welcome any information which leads to solving this piece of the puzzle for Luis and his daughter.

    i think it is possible what you are looking for may be one of the best of my knowledge 'First Aid Posts' set up by the medics of the 1st Battalion as a half way house as I would call it between the front line and the location of the 'ADS' set up by Captain Kaye and his section in eastern Oosterbeek/western Arnhem.....I feel the use of a RAP is too strong a word...if you refer to RB+RC's there are several comments from one of the medics who ran one of these FAP's......Hope this helps in some small way....
     
  5. JJS

    JJS Senior Member

    In looking for the house we seem to have lost sight of this mysterious DVD!.........Is there a new one out or are you all talking in a code I am not privy to? o_O
     
  6. bart belonje

    bart belonje Junior Member

  7. bart belonje

    bart belonje Junior Member

    Hi ABM, thanks a lot for your information, getting closer now, please fill me in on RB + RC's. Let you know future results on finding this location.
     
  8. bart belonje

    bart belonje Junior Member

    Hi Medic,
    last saturday after a very interesting Battlefield Tour guided by Robert Voskuil, I went to Hulkesteinseweg to have a look at this place, it is Hulkesteinseweg no 14, and it is still about the same as it was in 1944. The picture which you refer to was taken in front of the neighbouring house no 16
    At this moment I am trying to help Angela DiMarco to retrace the steps of her father, Private Luis DiMarco, signaller 1st Battalion. He got split up from Lt-Colonel Dobie, on the north side of Utrechtseweg.
    Luis came back to Hulkesteinseweg/Klingelbeekseweg, he remembers entering a wood, between the road and the river. Here was a "castlekeep" like building, with the roof on fire. There was no one around, but on the backdoor was written in coloured chalk RAP.
    Around this area there were three buildings which match this description; Hulkestein House, Oolgaardt House and Klingelbeek House. The first one did not survived the war and was not rebuild, second one was rebuild after the war in a completely different style and the last one survived the war and was rebuild/restored to the original.
    Does anyone have any information about RAP's on the southside (riverside) of Klingelbeekseweg Hulkesteinseweg. Luis DiMarco and his daughter Angela will be most happy to solve this puzzle.
     
  9. bart belonje

    bart belonje Junior Member

    If anyone is interested in the documentary of Stuart Mawson, send me a PM and I am most willing to forward you this file trough WeTransfer.
    Maybe you will need to download the VLC plugin to watch it. It is very interesting stuff.
     
  10. Tanja van Zon-Anderson

    Tanja van Zon-Anderson Senior Member

    Hallo,

    I am sorry. I do not understand the whole message (I think).

    What is it for DVD and does it have information about the 11th battalion?
    Who was Mawson?

    Greetings

    Tanja
     
  11. airborne medic

    airborne medic Very Senior Member

    Mawson = Captain Stuart Mawson the Regimental Medical Officer of the 11th Parachute Battalion in September 1944.......
     
  12. S.V. Korn 195th ALFA

    S.V. Korn 195th ALFA Junior Member

    Been a while since I posted but more evidence has now been gathered and I am planning a pilgrimage in my grandfathers footsteps to Arnhem this September for the 75th Anniversary, in the quest for some missing pieces of jigsaw.

    Whilst he was alive, he spoke about how when the 195th ALFA returned to the UK in Sept 1944 that an officer (presumably a surgeon, as my grandad was a theatre assistant) was posted to the 181st ALFA for OP Market Garden and took approximately 6 men with him. My grandfather being one them. My grandfather returned to Arnhem in 1994 for the 50th Anniversary.

    This long-held family “story” has been dismissed by many as impossible however he never spoke of the war (except to wonder if the baby French boy that he helped deliver in Normandy ever survived the war*). After my family persuaded him to revisit Arnhem in 1994, to help put his mind at peace that it was now a beautiful Dutch town and not the hell he remembered; he didn’t stop talking about the war including being a corporal (photographs prove this)

    After he passed on new years day 2007, I requested his medals and war records. Despite his records stating he was Private through-out his career (1st error in the records), they only state his active RAMC units as the 195th ALFA with overseas campaigns in: -

    Normandy: 06/06/44 – 03/09/44
    Ardennes & NW Europe: 23/12/44 – 23/02/45
    Op Varsity & NW Europe: 24/03/45 – 18/05/45
    Palestine until 1946

    Given there is already an error in the written records with regards to his rank; and the haste in which a handful of men would have been deployed from the 195th to the 181st ALFA, it does not surprise me that the records do not marry up (especially as a junior rank).

    If anyone can throw any light on this matter, or wishes to meet up with me in Arnhem this September to discuss RAMC activities there (specifically the 181st ALFA) then I look forward to hearing from you. If anyone has any PDF document files they can share with me it would also be much appreciated. The surname “Korn” not common in British Military WW1 and WW2 records, being that it originated in our family from Bavaria.

    *Gerrad Lorrine born 17th June 1944 – Survived the war and became a Doctor
     
  13. djcrtoye

    djcrtoye Member

    Not been on this site for a while. Just noticed this thread. My granda Toye, served with 181 Air Landing Field Ambulance he was captured on the 20th. He was attached to Company B 7th KSOB.
     
  14. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
    Name: D Toye
    Rank: Private
    Army Number: 14364253
    Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
    Record Office: Royal Army Medical Corps and Army Dental Corps Record Office, Colet Court, Hammersmith, London, W6
    Record Office Number: 30

    TD
     

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