4th Parachute Brigade Headquarters

4th Parachute Brigade Headquarters went into to battle with 82 men, 13 were killed, 2 of them are missing since.

Name: SUTTON, Edward "Froggy"

Rank: Private

Age: 27

No. 6211927

Unit: Defence Platoon

Missing since:20-09-1944

Next of Kin: Wembley, Middlesex.

Groesbeek Panel: 9

KIA Information: Known to have been killed by a booby trap as he entered a house in Wolfheze.

Name: WRIGHT, William Henry

Rank: Lance-Corporal

Age: 25

No. 4692899

Unit: Defence Platoon

Missing since:20-09-1944

Next of Kin: Son of William Henry and Jane Wright, of Stainforth, Yorkshire.

Groesbeek Panel: 8

KIA Information: Known to have been killed in or near the so called "Hollow" at the Valkenburglaan, Oosterbeek.

(See map below C4)

 

 


No part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, copying of photographs, recording, scanning or any information storage, retrieval or archiving system, without the prior written permission of the author.

 

cellphone user, please use the triple stripes on the top left to continue on the site.

Philip Reinders, 2016