2nd Parachute Battalion went into to battle with 525 men, 63 were killed, 15 of them are missing since.
Name: BURNS, William
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 33
No. 3196639
Unit: 8th Platoon, C. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Glasgow
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in de garden of Utrechtsestraat 31, Arnhem.
Name: McCREATH, William
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 28
No. 534260
Unit: Mortar Platoon, Support Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Mrs M McCreath, of Tottenham, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information:Known to have been killed by shrapnel in the garden of a house near the Arnhem Rhine Bridge.
Name: WADDILOVE, Charles
Rank: Corporal
Age: 31
No. 14534710
Unit: PIAT Section
1st Platoon A Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Ivy Ethel B. Waddilove, of East Howe, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have died from stomach wounds in an aid post near Arnhem Bridge.
Brown hair-5.8ft
Name: ELLINGFORD, George Edward
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 5835386
Unit: Assault Platoon, S.Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of John Edward and Mary Ann Ellingford, of Brighton, Sussex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: RIDDLE, Ernest
Rank: Lance-Sergeant
Age: 27
No. 6211062
Unit: HQ Company
Missing since:21-03-1945
Next of Kin: Son of George Albert amd Annie Riddle, of Marylebone, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have died at Stalag IXB and buried in Wegscheide POW Cemetery, Bad Orb, Hessen, reburied in Durnbach War Cemetery in September 1947, however, the Lance-Corporal body could not be traced.
Name: PRATT, Thomas Alfred
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No. 2657936
Unit: C. Company
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mr and Mrs T.A. Pratt of, Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed somewhere along the Utrechtseweg in Arnhem.
Name: CREW, William Frederick
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 1553167
Unit: Support Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Susan Elizabeth Crew of, Brockley, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Arnhem Bridge area.
Name: ROUGHSEDGE, Wallace
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 1440911
Unit: Signal Platoon, HQ Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: St Albans.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Arnhem Bridge area.
Name: MOON, Ronald William Albert
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 6351076
Unit: B Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William H and Winifred M. Moon, of Southborough, Tunbriddge Wells, Kent.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information:Known to have been killed in the back garden of Dr Niekerk's house, Eusebiusbinnensingel 18 at Arnhem, by a bullet or shrapnel
(See map below E6)
Name: NICHOLLS, Frederick Stanley
Rank: Private
Age: 32
No. 5672142
Unit: ?
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Albert Thomas Nicholls and Elizabeth Nicholls.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information:Known to have been killed in Arnhem road bridge area at Arnhem.
Name: SHIPLEY, Norman William
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No. 4208293
Unit: C. Company
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mrs E. Shipley, of Leicester.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by German MG fire on the Utrechtsestraat 63 while entering Arnhem after dark, together with Lance-Corporal William Loney.
(See map below E5)
Name: HIGGINS, James
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 2044354
Unit: Signal Platoon, HQ Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Elizabeth May Higgins of Fentone, Stoke on Trent.
Son of William and Nelly Higgins.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded in the Arnhem
Bridge area, and taken POW on 21/22-09-1944.
National Archive Record WO 361/642
Name: RUSSELL, William John Golding
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No. 2060433
Unit: Royal Engineers attd to
HQ Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Henry George and Florence Russell, of Chatham.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about
his death.
Name: DODDS, Fred Whyshall
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 5053340
Unit: ?
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: ?
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Arnhem Bridge area, on 19-09-1944.
National Archive Record WO 361/642
Name: SADLER, Leslie David
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No. 14529484
Unit: 9 Platoon, C. Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin:Husband of M.A. Sadler, of Balsall Heath, Staffordshire.
Son of David and Dorothy Sadler.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by a sniper in a meadow near the Oosterbeek railway Bridge on
17-09-1944.
Light Brown hair-5.9ft
(See map below E9)
Believed to be the unknown soldier in grave 18.A.14 on Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
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