Division Headquarters went into to battle with 142 men, 16 were killed, 5 of them are missing since.
Name: GIBSON, Victor
Rank: Private
Age: 25
No. 7612322
Unit: Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Clara Gibson, of Meadows, Nottingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: BROWN, Robert Duncan
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 25
No.7596110
Unit: Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Missing since:25/26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Robert and Jean S Brown of Glasgow.
Groesbeek Panel:9
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: TOES, James Arthur
Rank: Private
Age: 28
No.5383286
Unit: 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Defence Platoon
Missing since:22-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Arthur and Rose Toes, of Woodlesford, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 5
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on the Pietersberg estate.
Name: SMITH, Wilfred Gordon John
Rank: Private
Age: 21
No.5683032
Unit: 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Defence Platoon
Missing since: 25/26-09-1944
Next of Kin:Son of Wifred and May Smith, of Washford, Somerset.
Groesbeek Panel: 5
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Grave 21.C.6 on Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery holds the body of an unknown soldier of the 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light
Infantry, found at Kneppelhoutweg-Rozenpad
Name: MATTHIEU, Frederick, George
Rank: Private
Age: 22
No.5957159
Unit: 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Defence Platoon
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Frederick G. and Florence Matthieu, of Leyton, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 5
KIA Information: Last seen around Hartenstein Hotel on 25th September.
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