1st Parachute Brigade Headquarters went into to battle with 82 men, 7 were killed, 3 of them are missing since.
Name: ROBERTS, Ronald Thomas
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No. 14421261
Unit: Defence Platoon
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William Harfield Roberts, and of Alice Beatrice May
Roberts, of Osterley, Isleworth, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: During a fighting patrol at the Arnhem Bridge area he received a multiple gun shot wound in the chest on 20-09-1944, he had to be leaved behind in a sheltered position under the Northern end of the Arnhem road bridge.
National Archive Record WO 361/647
Name: SHUTTLEWOOD, Reginald Howard
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No.2056064
Unit: Attached
Missing since: 20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Howard and Rachel Elsie Julia Shuttlewood of Woodford Green, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Last seen underneath the Northern end of the Arnhem road bridge.
Name: DANN, Alfred Victor
Rank: Private
Age: 30
No.14344213
Unit: Defence Platoon
Missing since: 04-10-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Ernest and Clare Dann, husband of Anna Dann
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: On the afternoon of 21-09-1944, he was last seen under the Northern end of the Arnhem road bridge.
It is not sure if he died underneath or near the bridge or that he died later as Prisoner of war.
Accordingly his wife came from the Netherlands
National Archive Record WO 361/647
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