Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps
The Glider Pilot Regiment went into to battle with 1262 men, 229 were killed, 47 of them are missing since.
Name: WINKWORTH, Charles William
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 5110811
Unit: C Squadron
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Mary Elizabeth Winkworth, of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed when the Hamilcar (318) glider he was in overturned on landing, fatally wounded his co-pilot S/Sgt D.A. White. The body of Sergeant Winkworth could not be removed, and most likely was burned when the Germans set fire to the gliders after capturing the landing en droppingzones.
Name: BASHFORTH, Arthur Lionel
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 4750116
Unit: 8 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of lionel and Maud Bashforth, of Holylandswaine, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on or shortly after landing.
Name: EVANS, John
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 4127246
Unit: 21 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Sara Irene Wise, of Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Was killed when his glider crashed and was destroyed by fire on the LZ west of Wolfheze.
Name: PALMER, John
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 1550711
Unit: 21 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Emile William and Kate Palmer, of Hextable, Swanley, Kent.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
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Name: WILLIAMS, Llewelyn Elwyn
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 19
No. 2737860
Unit:22 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William Cadwaladr and Morfydd Williams, of Wrexham, Denbigshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Last seen on 19-09-1944, at the Hulkensteinseweg area, Oosterbeek.
Name: JOHNSON, Peter David
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 19
No. 1878043
Unit: 20 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Arthur William and Alice Johnson.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Last seen in the area later known as "the Dell" in the gorunds of the Municipal Museum at Arnhem.
(See map below E5)
Name: WRIGHT, John
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 951021
Unit: 25 Flight, G Squadron
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Joseph and Mary C Wright, of Townhead, Glasgow.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Was killed by shrapnel at 11.00hrs, His body was not buried and left about 50 yards west of the Old Church at Oosterbeek.
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Name: GRAHAM, John Frederick
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 1946447
Unit: 14 Flight, F Squadron
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Orpington
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in a trench on the Sonnenberg estate ,by a mortar bomb.
Believed to be buried as the unkown soldier in grave 18.A.20 on Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery.
Name: WHYBORN, Philip Ernest
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 21
No. 5734403
Unit: 19 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of John George and Ethel Minnie Whyborn, of Erdington, Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: SHARROCK, James Johnson
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 31
No. 3606728
Unit: 6 Flight, C Squadron
Missing since:22-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Thomas William and Elizabeth Ellen Sharrock , of Westhoughton, Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information:
Known to have been wounded on 22nd, there is a
list of wounded men which shows a Sergeant J Tarrock, probably made up in one of the Aid Posts in Oosterbeek, which could have been a mix up with J. Sharrock.
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Name: ALLISON, Gordon Stanley
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 2061978
Unit: Flight, E Squadron
Missing since:24/25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William Burdett and Minnie Margaret Allison, of Surbiton, Surrey.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: BRUCE, Reginald Charles
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 6203726
Unit: HQ, F Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of James Alfred and Maud Bruce, of Harrow, Weald, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded.
There is a small indication that points to the unknown Sergeant buried at Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery grave 5.B.17
Nrecame: JEAVONS, Wilfred Thomas
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 6203726
Unit: , C Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Mr and Mrs Jeavons, Cosley.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed/drowned during the night of the withdrawal.
Known to have been buried at Maurik Cemetery, found in the River on 20-10-1944, reburied at Jonkerbos War Cemetery in either grave 15.I.1 or 15.I.2,
Although after research by CWGC checking dental records it is said that none of them could be Sergeant Jeavons, although archive records shows that his body wased up at Maurik and was identified as such in 1944.
Name: TOMLINSON, Edwin Bernard Ernest
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 2364380
Unit: 3 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Winifred S.E. Tomlinson, of Rainham, Essex.
Son of Ernest J and Winifred Tomlinson.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Pinned to the ground during enemy attack and tanks firing from 20 yards and blasted men and out of the slit trenches. He wasn't seen after this attack and probably died in area Kerkpad.
(see map below E6)
Name: PAINTER, Graham
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 1441244
Unit: 4 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mr and Mrs R.F. Painter, of West Worthing, Sussex.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: WHITE, Alan
Rank:Staff-Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 5957181
Unit: Flight, C Squadron
Missing since:25/26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Majorie White, of Watford, Hertfordshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: WORTHINGTON, Bertram Gordon
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 27
No. 6461931
Unit: 5 Flight,D Squadron
Missing since:17/25-09-1944
Next of Kin: ?
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed on landing, one of the pilots of the glider in which Captain Peter Barron of 2nd (Oban) Anti-tank battery flew in with.
Name: BRALEE, Stanley
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 20
No. 5127615
Unit: 14 Flight, F Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Charles and Ada Bralee, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded on flight to Arnhem, last seen at the RAP at Duitse Kampweg, Wolfheze, presumable taken to Oosterbeek were he died of his wounds.
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Name: LYON, Matthew
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 61691
Unit: 9 Flight, G Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of George and Alice Lyon, of Scarborough, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed on or shortly after landing.
Name: RICKWOOD, Gordon Albert
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 2044667
Unit: 8 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Patricia S. Rickwood, of Eltham, London.
Son of William and Ada Rickwood.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by a sniper shortly after landing on landing zone X.
Name: WISEBAD, Julius
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 6846961
Unit: Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: London.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: LIVINGSTON, Duncan Mathieson
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 6211353
Unit: Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Donald Livingston and Margaret Livingston, of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
YATES, Arthur George
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 2622753
Unit: Flight, E Squadron
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Charles Frederick and Clara Yates, of Westbourne, Hampshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: MACKENZIE, Bruce
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 21
No. 6461073
Unit: 25 Flight, E Squadron
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Mrs E.F. Mackenzie of Wembley, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by a sniper on the grounds of the Dreyeroord Hotel on the west corner of Graaf van Rechterenweg and Van Dedemweg.
(see map below B6)
Name: DALLIMORE, Albert John
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 28
No. 1918346
Unit: 19 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Harold and Mary An Dallimore, of Oakham, Staffordshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in a defensive postion near Van Borsellenweg.
Name: FORRESTER, Robert
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 20
No. 14000080
Unit: Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:24-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Gavin and Marion R Forrester, of Edinburgh.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: RICHARDS, Arthur Edward
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 7599895
Unit: 15 Flight, F Squadron
Missing since:24/25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Arthur Vernon and Mary Ellen Richards, of Ilford, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information:Last seen between Hartensteinlaan and Nassaulaan.
(See map below C5)
Name: DAVIES, David Garfield
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 7400698
Unit: 4 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Daniel and ruth Davies, of Penclawdd, Glamorgan.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information:Pinned to the ground during enemy attack. and tanks firing from 20 yards and blasted men and guns out of the slit trenches. He wasn't seen after this attack and believed to have been killed in area Kerkpad.
Name: McMILLAN, Alexander Crawford
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 6296502
Unit: 11 Flight, E Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Archibald and Grace McMillan, of Sanguhar, Dumfriesshire.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information:Known to have been killed in the night of the withdrawal.
Name: BURGE, John Gilbert
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 7955094
Unit: Flight, C Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Isleworth.
Groesbeek Panel:8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed in the night of the withdrawal.
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Name: SMITH, John Creese
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 3962447
Unit: 3 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of C.M Smith, of Ton-Pentre, Glamorgan.
Son of Mr and Mrs S.C. Smith
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in A Troop position, 1st A/L Light Regiment.
(See map below E6)
Name: WILTON, Donald Claude
Rank:Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 5676468
Unit: Flight, A Squadron
Missing since:25/27-09-1944
Next of Kin: ?
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: ADAMS, Norman Vere Maxwell
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 27
No. 129156
Unit: 13 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Hilda Mary Maxwell Adams, of Hunstanton, Norfolk.
Son of Dr Daniel Vere Maxwell and Edith Anne Adams.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed/drowned when his Horsa glider (457) ditched in the North Sea off the coast of England.
Name: CLARK, Alfred Anthony
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 2094037
Unit: Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Dorset.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed in his glider who was under fire and went up in flames, his co-pilot Sgt C. Gell was also killed.
Could be buried in grave 30.B.5 or 29.B.2, on Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery but as these remains were badly burned it probably would be impossible to idenitify him.
Name: McCARTHY,Albert Francis
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 19
No. 14416034
Unit: 20 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Henry Patrick and Gwenllian Abigail McCarthy, of Ely Cardiff.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been wounded by mortar fire on 21-09-1944, and brought to Tafelberg, where he died of his wounds.
Name: WATSON, Laurence Frank
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 25
No. 938652
Unit: Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Croydon.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name: GREEN, Kenneth William
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 22
No. 14251832
Unit: 22 Flight, C Squadron
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of William and Lillian Green, of Walsall, Staffordshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Probably killed whilst unloading his glider on the Johannahoeve/Papendal LZ.
Name: MURPHY, Thomas
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 29
No. 2030823
Unit: 24 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Violet May Murphy, of Tidworth, Hampshire.
Son of William and Ellen Murphy.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Probably killed by shrapnel on the Johannahoeve/Papendal LZ.
Name: FISHER, Cyril
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 3458590
Unit: 5 Flight, D Squadron
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Manchester.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: No specific information is known about his death.
Name:THOMPSON, David
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 27
No. 2576545
Unit: 9 Flight, G Squadron
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin:
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed whilst walking in front of a 75mm gun whilst it fired at E Troop position near the old church after dark on 20-09-1944.
Known to have been buried 80 yards west of the church. Said to been found on January 1994 on the Sonnenberg, (now grave 25.C.7) however as this is a total different location this is probably not correct and he is still missing .
Name: KERR, David Fisher
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 3387884
Unit: 4 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:22-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Doreen Kerr, of Eccleston, Lancashire.
Son of David and Georgina Kerr.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have died of his wounds in the RAP at Kate Ter Horst house.
Could he be the unknown Staff-Sergeant buried at Arnhem-Oosterbeek War Cemetery 2.A.14.
(see map below E6)
Name: NAYLOR, Cyril
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 1429025
Unit: Flight, E Squadron
Missing since:24-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of James and Doris Naylor, of Orpington.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have in a defensive position near Van Borsellenweg.
Name: ANDERSON, Dermont Green
Rank: Lieutenant
Age: 29
No. 123868
Unit: 5 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Caroline Ann Anderson, of Oxhey, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Son of John Jarrold and Mary Pinkerton Anderson
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by enemy shell fire near his trench at the Valkenburglaan area.
Also said to believed to have been killed in the kerkpad area.
Name: HARRIS, Howard Steven
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 5113745
Unit: 4 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of H.C. and Getrude A. Harris, of Hall Green, Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Pinned to the ground during enemy attack. and tanks firing from 20 yards and blasted men and guns out of the slit trenches. He wasn't seen after this attack and believed to have been killed in area Kerkpad.
Name: WOODS, Roy Oliver
Rank: Staff-Sergeant
Age: 24
No. 847224
Unit: 3 Flight, B Squadron
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Joseph Ernest and Dorothy Woods, of Southampton.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed during a tank attack in the area Benedendorpsweg/Kneppelhoutweg.
(see map below E6)
Name: GITTINGS, John Harrison
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 23
No. 4917002
Unit: HQ, 2nd Wing
Missing since:25/26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Frank and Beatrice Mary Gittings, of Walsall, Staffordshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Believed to have been killed during the withdrawal to the Rhine .
Name: TAYLOR, Frank William
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 26
No. 2193369
Unit: 16 Flight, F Squadron
Missing since:25/26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Alfred Clyde and Kate Taylor, of Twickenham.
Groesbeek Panel: 8
KIA Information: Known to have been killed during the withdrawal to the Rhine .