1st Parachute Battalion went into to battle with 548 men, 83 were killed, 21 of them are missing since.
1st Parachute Battalion
Name: COOPER, Norman "Duff"
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 4208293
Unit: R. Company
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William and Lavina Cooper, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Wolfhezerweg-Amsterdamseweg area ,Wolfheze during the night of 17/18-09-1944
(See map below C1)
Name: BUCHANAN, Robert
Rank: Corporal
Age: ?
No. 3065436
Unit: 7th Platoon S. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Castle Douglas, Dumfriesshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in a garden of a house on the Utrechtseweg in Mariendaal area.
(See map below E4)
Name: GOULDEN James Reuben
Rank: Private
Age: 32
No. 4973713
Unit: HQ. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Claire Goulden, of Pelsall, Staffordshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Killed by shell fire in Arnhem.
Name: SUMMERS Harry Edward
Rank: Private
Age: 30
No. 986614
Unit: Mortar Platoon, HQ. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of F.A. Summers, of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. Son of Sidney and Lucy Summers, of Wollaston.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have died of his wounds (mortar fire) in the St
Elisabeth hospital in Arnhem on 19-09-1944.
(See map below E4)
Name: CURTIS,Leslie Arthur
Rank: 2nd Lieutenant
Age: 25
No. 323542
Unit: HQ Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Albert James and Emma Curtis, of Tottenham, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have died of his wounds (tank fire near the old church at 16.30hrs) in the RAP at Kate Ter Horst house. However his body could not be traced after the war.
(See map below E6)
Name: HART,George
Rank: Private
Age: 32
No. 6139388
Unit: MMG, S Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Amy B. Hart , of Leystone, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information known about his death. However there is
some information available that he possible was buried in the garden of house De Vergarde at the Utrechtseweg in Oosterbeek.
(See map below C9)
Name: STRACHAN, "Jock" Frederick Anderson
Rank: Private
Age: 29
No. 7903398
Unit: R. Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of May Primrose Strachan, of Birkhill, Agnus.
Son of Robert and Helen MacRae Strachan.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Know to have been killed in the Oude Kraan area (Now Nelson Mandela Bridge), Arnhem on 19-09-1944, it is said that his body was crushed by a German SP gun.
(See map below E5)
National Archive Record WO 361/629
Name: NICHOLLS, Cyril Charles
Rank: Private
Age: 27
No. 5628491
Unit: R. Company
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mrs H.E.L. Austin of Bradford, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been seriously wounded in the Wolfhezerweg-Amsterdamseweg area ,Wolfheze, he had to be left behind by the side of the road.
(See map below C1)
Name: DEAN, Raymond Leslie Alfred
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No. 14368994
Unit: R. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mr A Dean DCM and Mrs A.A. Dean of St. Budeaux, Plymouth.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Wolfhezerweg-Amsterdamseweg area ,Wolfheze during the night of 17/18-09-1944
Light brown hair, 5.8-5.10 feet
(See map below C1)
Name: KNAPPER, James
Rank: Private
Age: 26
No. 5729130
Unit: R. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of James and Sarah Ann Knapper of Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Wolfhezerweg-Amsterdamseweg area ,Wolfheze during the night of 17/18-09-1944.
It is my opnion that he is possible the unknown soldier at Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Grave 17.C.8
His body was brought in by civilians from the Amsterdamseweg /A12 area at Wolfheze.
Brown hair,5.9 feet
(See map below C1)
Name: KILMARTIN, Michael Gabriel
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 24
No. 217467
Unit: 1st Platoon Commander R. Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Ambrose and Eve Kilmartin of Jarvis Brook, Sussex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the area of Onderlangs at Arnhem. He received gun fire to his body which then exploded the phosporous grenades he was carrying.
(See map below E5)
Name: TOMLINSON, Clifford
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No. 3451005
Unit: HQ Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Harry and Emily Tomlinson of Bury, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Said to be killed on Benedendorpsweg, Oosterbeek.
Name: LENTON, Albert Victor
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 29
No. 6146440
Unit: 9th Platoon T Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Croydon, Surrey.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Said to be killed near the old church on Benedendorpsweg, Oosterbeek. (How ever according to German Records he was buried in the Mass grave in front of the Hartenstein Hotel.)
(See map below E6)
Name: WARBURTON, Harry
Rank: Private
Age: 31
No. 3445991
Unit: Quartermaster Platoon, HQ Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Dorothy. B. Warburton, of Colchester, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the early hours of the 26th near the Rhine river at Oosterbeek.
Name: BAKER, Albert Edward
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 11408969
Unit: R. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Albert and Christina Baker, of Bristol.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed near the railway embankment in the Oosterbeek Hoog Station area.
According to another source he was last seen alive on the 19-09-1944 at Onderlangs road in Arnhem.
Name: DYER, Leslie William
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14650322
Unit: 6th Platoon S. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William and Lavina Cooper, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been last seen in the morning of 18-09-1944 along Utrechtseweg just east of Oosterbeek.
National Archive Record WO 361/629
Name: SMITH,Cyril Ernest
Rank: Private
Age: 31
No. 5832804
Unit: 7th Platoon, S. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William and Ellen Smith, Husband of Margaret L. Smith of of Southsea, Hampshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the area of the railway viaduct over the Utrechtseweg., Den Brink area
(See map below E4)
Name: MORRIS,Francis
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 36
No. 2692018
Unit: 6th Platoon, S. Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of F.M.Morris, of North Kensington, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by a sniper near the river embankment in the Onderlangs, area at Arnhem at 06.00hrs.
(See map below E5)
National Archive Record WO 361/629
Name: GOULD, Raymond Dan
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 14411243
Unit: 6th Platoon, S. Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William Gould and Dorothy Gould of West Norwood, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: BEST, Gordon
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 1463210
Unit: HQ Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Rita Best, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
Son of Pickard and Anne Best.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been buried by the Dutch Red Cross in the Onderlangs park at Arnhem on 2 October 1944.
(See map below E 6/7)
Name: GEAR, Ronald Arthur Reginald
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 5511980
Unit: 2nd Platoon R. Company
Missing since:11-04-1945
Next of Kin: Son of Rose Gear, of Albrook, Hampshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Know to have been died of his wounds in a Reserve Hospital on 11-04-1944, in Wolfenbuttel, Germany