10th Parachute Battalion
10th Parachute Battalion went into to battle with 582 men, 93 were killed, 28 of them are missing since.
Name: BENNETT, Frank William Charles
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 29
No. 4973455
Unit: 4th Platoon, A Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Battersley.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: VERHOEFF, Anthony William
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 19
No. 14688322
Unit: A Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Anthony and Alida Verhoeff, of Golders Green, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: FIFIELD, William
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14640112
Unit: 10th Platoon B Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Hector McDonald and Selby Fifield, of Cwmdu, Swansea.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: HILL, Robert
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No. 5338703
Unit: B Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Alice Florence Hill, of Islington, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: KINCAID, Peter
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 6460525
Unit: Inttl Section HQ Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: London.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Johannahoeve area.
Ginger Hair
Name: HORSFALL, Cedric Michael
Rank: Captain
Age: 26
No. 93320
Unit: D Company Commander
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Sir J Donald JR ,2nd Bt and of Lady Horsfall (nee Musgrove), of Glusburn, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded in the Bilderberg area by German MMG fire when trying to get
into the Perimeter.
Brown Hair
Believed to be the unknown officer, buried in grave 24.B.3 Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Name: DAVIS, James Arthur
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 24
No. 113`1397
Unit: S Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of John Bannister and Lily Davies, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in a house on the Utrechtseweg when he was killed by a wall which came down.
(See map below C7)
Name: TALBOT, Graham James
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No. 14219436
Unit: 18th Platoon D Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Blodwen Talbot, of Hafod, Swansea.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information:Last seen in or near the so called Hollow on the Valkenburglaan.
(See map below C4)
Name: ORMEROD, Albert
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 11051708
Unit: A Company
Missing since:23-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Emmanuel and Margaret Ormerod, of Blackburn, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information:Last seen in the Polish landingzone area.
(See map below D2/3)
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: BURKE, Joseph
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 5781130
Unit: Anti Tank Platoon S Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of James Bergin, of Cabra, Dublin, Ireland.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on Landingzone Z, probably by a sniper.
Name: PARTINGTON, George Edward
Rank: Corporal
Age: 28
No. 7263071
Unit: RAMC attached to the Battalion
Missing since:18/20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Very Beryl Partington, of North Harrow.
Son of Henry and Margaret Nisbet Partington.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in on Ginkel Heath.
Name: GARNETT, Thomas
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No. 3654847
Unit: Anti Tank Platoon S Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Olive Garnett, of Stockton Heath, Cheshire
Son of Thomas and Mary Garnett.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in the Johannahoeve area.
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: HOLLAND, John
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14413727
Unit: Mortar Platoon S Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Tom and Lydia Holland, of Newbold Moor, Chesterfield.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Killed by a sniper location not known.
Name: OLIVER, John William
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No. 4452322
Unit: D Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Helen Oliver, Glasgow.
Son of J.W. and Alice Winifred Oliver.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Killed by a sniper in the Johannahoeve area.
Name: McKENZIE, David
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No. 2757181
Unit: Anti Tank Platoon S Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Kenneth and Annie McKenzie of , Dundee.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed near the junction Amsterdamseweg-Maasbergseweg.
Blond hair 5.5ft
(See map below C2)
Name: LEWIS, Victor James
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 2036333
Unit: 18th Platoon D Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mr and Mrs W.H. Lewis of Carmarthen.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed near on the Polish landingzone.
Dark brown hair 5.11ft
(See map below D2/3)
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: BINKS, James Edward
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 997976
Unit: Signal Section, HQ Company
Missing since:22-09-1944
Next of Kin: Liverpool.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been taken POW, but escaped, jump from a train and picked up by resistance at Scherpenzeel/Renswoude area.
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: HOWARD, John
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 25
No. 200853
Unit: 5th Platoon
Commander A Company
Missing since:20-10-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Pamela Howard. Son of Mr E.C. Howard, of Bexhill-on-Sea.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Know have tried to swim the Rhine on 20-10-1944, but failed in doing so, either killed or drowned.
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: LOWMAN, Charles Frank
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 27
No. 6403388
Unit: 5th Platoon A Company
Missing since:01-11-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Charles Frederick and Daisy Lowman, of Upton Park, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information:Believed to have died in Stalag VIIIC, Sagan,
Poland.
5.4ft
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: HOWS, Donald Frank
Rank: Private
Age: 24
No. 6207328
Unit: ?
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Southall.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in on Ginkel Heath.
Name: GLAZIER, John Charles Joseph
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 34
No. 6397198
Unit: Anti Tank Platoon, S Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Hasting, Sussex
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by MMG fire in the Johannahoeve area on 19-09-1944.
Browh hair-5.8ft
(See map below A6)
Name: HIGNETT, George
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No. 3773409
Unit: B Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Phyllis Hignett, of Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: KEEN, Denzil Meyer
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No. 6292817
Unit: 4th Platoon A Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of John and Elizabeth Keen, of Maida Vale, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Know to have been badly wounded (lost a leg), he was laid across the front of the Battalion
Commanders jeep to be evacuated to the RAP with it received a direct hit, killing him and some others in the jeep. This happend in the Johannahoeve area.
Brown hair 6.3ft
Name: NOYE, Gerald Stephen
Rank: Private
Age: 28
No. 5512428
Unit: 4th Platoon A Company
Missing since:19/20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Bognor Regis.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information known about his death.
Name: PROUDFOOT, George
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No. 3192880
Unit: Headquarters D Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Joseph and Jeanie Proudfoot, of Dunragit, Wigtownshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the area of Wolfheze Railway Station.
(See map below D1)
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: MOSS, Edward Brian
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No. 14423707
Unit: Headquarters D Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Benjamin snd Winefred Moss, stepson of Jane Moss, of Widnes, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: FARRAGE, Thomas Oysten
Rank: Private
Age: 26
No. 138613
Unit: D Company
Missing since:23-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Robert and Isabella Farrage, of High Spen, Co Durham.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by German MG fire and being buried by his comrades on 19 September 1944.
National Archive Record WO 361/625
Name: McLEAN, James O'Hair
Rank: Private
Age: 27
No. 7375447
Unit: RAMC attd S Company
Missing since:20-10-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Everhilda Mclean, of Goole, Yorkshire.
Son of James and Maragaret McLean.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Know have tried to swim the Rhine on 20-10-1944, but failed in doing so, either killed or drowned.
5.8-5.9ft