156 Parachute Battalion
Parachute Battalion went into to battle with 590 men, 105 were killed, 24 of them are missing since.
Name: BOYD, John
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No.14417276
Unit: ?
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of John and Jean Boyd of, St Ninians, Stirling.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed on or shortly after landing on Ginkel Heath.
National Archive Record WO 361/633
Name: COBB, John Thomson
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No.3062090
Unit: 4th Platoon A Company
Missing since:18/25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of David and Mary Cobb of, Carnoustie, Agnus.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Brown hair-5.8ft
Name: EVANS, Alan William
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No.14555670
Unit: 9th Platoon C Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William and Mary Elizabeth Evans, of Marsh Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in the Johannahoeve-Dreyenseweg area.
Name: FORD, Desmond Ewart
Rank: Private
Age: 26
No.3910446
Unit: 8th Platoon B Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mrs C Ford, of Cwmcarn, Monmouthshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by strafing German fighter in the Dreyenseweg area. Family was told that he was buried in the woods a few miles from Arnhem.
dark brown hair-6.1ft
Name: WEST, Roland James
Rank: Corporal
Age: 22
No.5122842
Unit: 5th Platoon A Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Jock and Margaret West, Grandson of Mrs E.M. Fleming, of Dehra Dun, India.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded in foot, chest and stomach.
Black hair-5.5ft
Believed to be the unknown soldier at Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Grave 19.J.3
National Archive Record WO 361/633
Name: MANNING, Joseph
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No.2758928
Unit: Headquarters A Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin:Glasgow.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No information is known about his death.
Name: GOLLEDGE, William G
Rank: Private
Age: 27
No.5671054
Unit: Headquarters C Company
Missing since:26-09-1944
Next of Kin:Nelson
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No information is known about his death.
Name: DAVISON, John
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 23
No.151701
Unit: 7th Platoon Commander B Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Gerald and Joan Davison, Putney, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 1
KIA Information: Broke both legs on landing, and could not be moved, the heath around him was on fire, it is said that he shot himself as there was no way of escaping, also could have been killed by enemy fire.
Name: FROST, Richard
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 23
No.5780687
Unit: Carrier Platoon HQ Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of, O.M. Frost of Colliers Wood, Surrey.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on or shortly after landing. Said to be one of the carrier
drivers.
Name: MUNRO, Alexander
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No.14273932
Unit: 5th Platoon A Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Archibald and Janet Munro, of Wishaw, Lanarkshire
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on 19-09-1944, during the attack on
Lichtenbeek/Dreyenseweg.
(See map below D3)
National Archive Record WO 361/633
Name:FLETCHER, Hugh Edward
Rank: Private
Age: 19
No.14422161
Unit: 5th Platoon A Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Edward Hugh and Daisy Minny Fletcher, of Westham, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been at the 'The Hollow" , Valkenburglaan.
(See map below C4)
Name:HUNTER, David Hardy
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No.14411126
Unit: 7th Platoon B Company
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Robert White Hunter and Jessie Halbert Hunter, of Lundin Links, Fife.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No speciific information in known about his death.
Name:STIRLING, Andrew Taylor Glen
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 20
No14494827
Unit: 4th Platoon A Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Hugh and Gertrude Jane Stirling, of Cardonald, Glasgow.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No speciific information in known about his death.
Name:MALCOLM, David
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No.65680
Unit: C Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Margaret Malcolm, of Perth.
Son of Henry and Jean Malcolm.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the night of 18/19-09-1944 in the Johannahoeve area.
National Archive Record WO 361/633
Name: HOSKINS, Sidney
Rank: Private
Age: 27
No.5948943
Unit: 10th Platoon C Company
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Alfred and Mary Hoskins, of Caerau, Glamorgan.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed on or shortly after landing on Ginkel Heath.
Name: HUTCHINSON, Ronald Frank
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 21
No.5683020
Unit: 4th Platoon A Company/Brengunner
Missing since:18/25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Frank and Phyllis Hutchinson, of Billingham, Co Durham.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed on or shortly after landing on Ginkel Heath.
Light Brown hair-5.10/5.11ft
Name: POLLOCK, William
Rank: Private
Age: 20
No.14214342
Unit: 6th Platoon B Company
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: West Bromwich.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Johannahoeve-Dreyenseweg area.
Name: HAGGERTY, Denis
Rank: Private
Age: 23
No.6460125
Unit: 10th Platoon C Company
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: London.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed at Wolfheze and buried by civilians in the cemetery of the Psychiatric Hospital at Wolfheze.
His ID tag and army paybook were taken and handed over to one of the Dutch doctors but they got lost during the evacuation.
Sergeant Joe Conlon, his platoon sergeant, told me he visited the grave whilst in hiding in the area, and in doing so lost his dogtags near the grave through this Haggerty was buried as Sergeant J. Conlon, when it turned out the last one he was alive, this was altered in an unknown grave.
Believed to be the unknown soldier at Arnhem-Oosterbeek war Cemetery Grave 6.D.13
Name: COOPER, Ernest
Rank: Private
Age: 31
No.4535120
Unit: 3rd Platoon A Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of George Henry and Mary Cooper, of Sheffield.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on the Ginkel Heath by a mortar bomb.
Name: WALKER, Andrew Ogilvie
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 28
No.2751425
Unit: 8th Platoon B Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Jean Walker, of Glasgow.
Son of Mr Peter Walker.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: Known to have been broken his arm on landing, later killed by a stray bullet in a Field Hospital.
Name: SMITH, Leslie
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No.6012115
Unit: 8th Platoon B Company
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Harry and Beatrice Smith, of Romford, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known bout his death.