1st (Airborne) Division Signals
1st (Airborne) Division Signals went into to battle with 348 men, 28 were killed, 8 of them are missing since.
Name: HARRIS, Raymond Leonard Walter
Rank: Signalman
Age: 21
No. 5511960
Unit: J Section
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Bernard Waler and Dais Harris, of Sarisbury Green, Hampshire. May Gueran, of Ramsgate, Kent.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed somewhere between Oosterbeek and Arnhem.
Could he be the unknown signaller buried at Arnhem-Oosterbeek war Cemetery, grave 28.C.1
Name: THOMPSON, Jack Douglas
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 28
No. 832024
Unit: J Section
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Stepson of Mrs M.E. Thompson, of Hammersmith, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by a sniper on the area of the Valkenburglaan.
Also said to have been killed in the Hartenstein area.
Name: SMITH, Cyril Ernest
Rank: Signalman
Age: 26
No. 5388654
Unit: K Section
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Margaret L. Smih, of Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed/drowned during the night of the withdrawal.
Name: NORBURY, Douglas James
Rank: Signalman
Age: 21
No. 3606701
Unit: J Section
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of James and Marie Norbury, of Collyhurst, Manchester.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in a house by Arnhem road bridge, went it was hit by a mortar bomb , the house burned out that night.
An unknown signaller was buried at the Arnhem General Cemetery, grave 15.C.15 who was body was burnt.
So this is possible to body of Douglas Norbury or Leslie Westall.
Name: WATKINS, James
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Age: 21
No. 4914592
Unit: K Section
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded at Wolfheze area on the 20-09-1944.
Believed to be unknown signaller buried at the Arnhem General Cemetery, grave 32.B.5.
Name: HIBBIT, Reginald Henry
Rank: Driver
Age: 20
No. 14579066
Unit: HQ Section
Missing since:25/26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William Henry and Elizabeth Emily Hibbit, of Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been drowned during the night of the withdrawal.
Brown hair 5.6ft
Name: WESTALL, Leslie
Rank: Lance-Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 2579000
Unit: J Section
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Burnley, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed operating his wireless set in a house by Arnhem road bridge.
Dark brown hair- 6.1ft
Name: DEAN, Joel
Rank: Signalman
Age: 22
No. 14298695
Unit: E Section
Missing since:22-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Charles and Harriet Dean, of Castleton, Rochdale, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by mortar fire near the Concert Hall at Oosterbeek.
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