3rd Parachute Battalion went into to battle with 588 men, 70 were killed, 23 of them are missing since.
Name: GRAHAM, Thomas Edward
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 3653653
Unit: 9th Platoon C Company
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Burnley, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed when ambushing a German lorry on the Bilderberglaan, near the junction with Valkenburglaan.
(See map below A5)
Name: BALL, Lloyd Peter
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14692185
Unit: A Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: KEARNS, Bernard Paul
Rank: Private
Age: 31
No. 4040002
Unit: ?
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Daisy Kearns, of Monkmoor, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: CHAMPION, Eric
Rank: Private
Age: 26
No. 5498767
Unit: HQ Company,Provost
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Ringwood, Hampshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been buried by the Dutch Red Cross in the grounds of St Elisabeth Hospital, Arnhem.
(See map below E4)
Name: PERRYMAN, Dennis William Robert
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 28
No. 5189259
Unit: HQ Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Very Gwendolen Perryman, of Kingswood, Bristol.
Son of William and Florence Perryman.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed together with his Commanding Officer, Major Houston in the Oude Kraan area, Arnhem.
(See map below E5)
Could he possible be the unknown Sergeant on Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery grave 19.A.20, who was buried at Moscowa Cemetery who was identified as an unknown Sergeant of 3rd Parachute Battalion.
Name: STANLEY, Walter Hickman
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 34
No. 5121459
Unit: A.Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of E.M. Stanley, of Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by tank fire, when fighting in some fields North of the river Rhinebank, at Rosandepolder, Oosterbeek.
(See map below E7)
Name: BLAKELEY, Ivor
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 3190715
Unit: A.Company
Missing since:22-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Helen J. Blakeley, of Burnfoot, Roxburghshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by German hand grenade in his slit trench. Buried in the garden of the
Breman family, Benedendorpsweg 119, Oosterbeek
(See map below E7)
Name: NEWMAN, Albert Henry
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 5121053
Unit: 4th Platoon, B. Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Samuel J.T. and Emily May Newman ,of Dunchurch, Warwickshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed during the withdrawal when the boat he was in, was hit by a mortarbomb or a shell.
Could he be one of the soldiers in the double grave 15.I.3 at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, both soldiers were recovered from the river Rhine on 13-11-1944 at a place called Maurik.
National Archive Record WO 361/635
Name: HILDYARD-TODD, William
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 6459454
Unit: A. Company
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in an attack near the junction of Wolfhezerweg-Utrechtseweg.
(See map below C3)
Could it be the unknown Sergeant buried at Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery Grave 19.C.3?
Name: HAMPTON, Joseph
Rank: Corporal
Age: 25
No. 3858187
Unit: ?
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: SHARP, Henry Robert
Rank: Lance-Sergeant
Age: 29
No. 6099924
Unit: 8th Platoon, C. Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Frances L. Sharp, of Leyton, Sussex.
Son of Charles and Constance Sharp.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: HASLAM, James
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14413401
Unit: HQ. Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Mavis Roberta Haslam, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Son of Stanley and Catherine Haslam.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: It is known to have been killed in the area Oude Kraan, Arnhem.
(See map below E5)
National Archive Record WO 361/635
Name: HOUSTON, James Ivor "Happy"
Rank: Major
Age: 32
No. 53748
Unit: HQ. Company Commander
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Lorna Houston, of Weyhill, Hampshire.
Son of Mr and Mrs James Houston.
Groesbeek Panel: 5
KIA Information: Known to have been killed with Sergeant Perryman in the area Oude Kraan, Arnhem.
(See map below E5)
Name: SUMMERFIELD, Robert Henry
Rank: Corporal
Age: 26
No. 3058103
Unit: 9th Platoon, C. Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Robert Henry and Jane Summerfield, of Gullane, East Lothian.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed near the schoolbuilding at Arnhem road bridge.
(See map below F6)
Name: FELTON, Albert
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 5337793
Unit: 4th Platoon, B. Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: London.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed during the withdrawal when the boat he was in, was hit by a mortarbomb or a shell.
Could he be one of the soldiers in the double grave 15.I.3 at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, both soldiers were recovered from the river Rhine on 13-11-1944 at a place called Maurik.
National Archive Record WO 361/635
Name: MCDOUGALL, John
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 2992751
Unit: ? Company
Missing since:20-11-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Archibald and Mary McDougall, of Johnstone, Renfrewshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known specific information is known about his death.
Name: AYERS, George
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 5382108
Unit: ?
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Evelyn May Ayers, of Tissman's Common, Sussex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: HIBBURT, Peter Leslie
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 21
No. 243546
Unit: 7th Platoon Commander, C Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Alfred Charles and Hariclia Hibbert, of Pett's Wood, Kent.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Last seen near the northern end of the ramp of the Rhine bridge at Arnhem.
Name: ATKINSON, William
Rank: Private
Age: 36
No. 4120961
Unit: B. Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Liverpool.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been buried by the Dutch Red Cross in the grounds of St Elisabeth Hospital, Arnhem.
Auburn hair 5.9ft
Name: PETTIT, Billy
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 4694607
Unit: B. Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Freda Pettit, of Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
Son of Arthur and Alice May Pettit.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been buried by the Dutch Red Cross in the grounds of St Elisabeth Hospital, Arnhem.
(See map below E4)
Name: RICHE, Edward, Marcus
Rank: Private
Age: 31
No. 7903497
Unit: ?
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Ethel A. Riche, of Croydon, Surrey.
Son of Ernest and Agnes Riche.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: SMITH, George Lisle
Rank: Lance-Sergeant
Age: 29
No. 4463815
Unit: A. Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Cullercoats.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Reported wounded, believed made Prisoner.
Name: HOLDING,Donald
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 4916824
Unit: HQ. Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William and Alice Holding of, Wolverhampton.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have died of gun shot wounds to the chest and abdomen in the St Elisabeth Hospital on 24-9-1944.
(See map below E4)
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