Bear with me on this one. I purchased an old metal trunk at a local auction and this tired, faded and torn newspaper was at the bottom, having been used to line it.
OK to nick this to repost on a Para Reg FB page attributed to you ? Trying to work out which Battalions/Regiments they served with Sgt Gee would appear to be Artillery 2nd lift. Pte Cannon Parachute Regiment report says 2nd Op. Jump one near Paris ( D Day?) and Arnhem Watts Sicily and Arnhem Pte Corley Parachute Regiment .Missing I wonder if he survived. Troopers Bates and Sam Recce Regiment. Craftsman Moulster REME Sig Jack Cannon Signals? That's a lot of Airborne from one area.
A great comment showing how the Dutch civilians risked their lives to help "The Dutch did all they could for the Airborne men"
Yes, please repost it and please mention the source. I looked for Sgt Horace Gee in the Royal Artillery Attestation but it only goes up to 1942 and he enlisted in 1943.
Missing. Army Air Corps. 5952881 Corley. Pte. R. P. 156 Parachute Regiment. 25.09.1944. Previously Reported Missing Now Reported a Prisoner of War in German Hands. Army Air Corps 5952881 Corley. Pte. R. P. 156 Parachute Regiment. 25.09.1944
High Wood, regarding the words just above the photo of Bates & Samm - what was 'unprintable'? Just wondering.
From RA Attestation 903855 Charles Richard Vine. From casualty lists: List 889 dated 30 July 1942, Middle East/Cyrenaica/Missing, Hy. A.A. Regt 135 Z Bty, date of casualty 20.6.42. then, List 940 dated 28 Sept 1942, reported POW, previously missing, regiment given as 277/68 Hy AA. then, List 1302 dated 27 Nov 1943, reported POW in Italian hands now in neutral country. POW details: Camp: 70, RO No: 43 He is also mentioned in WO 32/9895 "Treatment of British POWs who escaped to Switzerland 1941-46"
5952881 Pte. Reginald Percival CORLEY 156 Parachute Regiment 24th July 1918 - 3Q 1999 North Surrey Originally enlisted in the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment
Here you go. the original photography was quite rushed and I have frankly been amazed by the response to this thread. In due course I will rephotograph the entire article so that it can be more easily read,
"The suave, sophisticated Simon Jervis who posts on the WW2 Talk forum as High Wood" has a certain ring to it, but I am happy to tick the box that says, No Publicity. Seriously though, High Wood from the WW2Talk forum will suffice.
Trooper Allan A SAMM 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Regiment born 1923 Luton Traitor of Arnhem Minerva Press 1996