1st Airlanding Squadron, Reconnaissance Corps, RAC
1st Airlanding Squadron went into to battle with 182 men, 28 were killed, 3 of them are missing since.
Name: GILES, David
Rank: Trooper
Age: 32
No. 3445870
Unit: C. Troop
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Muriel Giles, of Crumpsall, Manchester.
Groesbeek Panel: 1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the Planken Wambuis area, ambush on 19-09-1944.
Brown hair-6ft
(See map below B/C.1)
Believed to be the unknown soldier in grave 1.B.3 Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery
Name: HOLDERNESS, George Ellis
Rank: Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant
Age: 30
No. 5379474
Unit: HQ Troop
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Marie Holderness, of Thorton Heath, Surrey.
Son of Charles Ernest and Rose Holderness.
Groesbeek Panel: 1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the night of 25/26-09-1944, 200m west behind Tafelberg Hotel when the party his was with run into enemy machine-gun fire.
Dark hair-5.9ft
(See map D6)
Name: TICKLE, Stanley
Rank: Trooper
Age: 33
No. 3460967
Unit: C. Troop
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Manchester.
Groesbeek Panel: 1
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in the night of 25/26-09-1944, 200m west behind Tafelberg Hotel when the party his was with run into enemy machine-gun fire.
(See map D6)
