21st Independent Parachute Company
Name: Major Bernard Alexander Wilson
Nickname: Boy
Army number: 43050
Former 10th Royal Hussars
Officer in Command
Born `10-06-1897, Marylebone, London.
Died 00-12-1965, London.
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Name: Private Anthony John Crane
Nickname "Tony"
Army number:
Born 01-10-1924
Died 12-12-2010,Bradford
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Name: Private Frank McAusland
Army number:
No.1 Platoon
Born 00-10-1919, Liverpool
Died 00-03-1993
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Name: Private Thomas Scullion
Army number:
No.2 Platoon
Born
Died
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Name: Lieutenant Norman Hugh Harry Ashmore
Army number: 168938
Former The Welch Regiment
3 Platoon Commander
Born `13-11-1922
Died 10-11-2017
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Lieutenant Norman Hugh Harry Ashmore (November 13, 1921- 7November 2017) Norman Hugh Ashmore was born in Cardiff on November 13 1921. He was an actor for a time before enlisting
in the Army and was commissioned into the Welch Regiment in January 1941.
During the Battle he was 3 Platoon Commander.
In 1946 the Battle of Arnhem was re-enacted for a film produced by the Rank Organisation called Theirs is the Glory. It was filmed on the site of the battle and participants in it were used as actors. At the beginning of the film, Ashmore gave a briefing on the planned assault.
He joined the British Council in 1947, worked at the head office in London until 1950 and subsequently served in Yugoslavia (twice), Kenya, Israel and Switzerland. He retired in 1980 and, settled in a village near Exeter, enjoyed tennis, gardening, beekeeping and looking after his chickens and goats.
Hugh Ashmore married, in 1944, Gwyneth Jones. She predeceased him and he is survived by their son and daughter.
Name: Private Frank Dixon
Nickname "Butch"
Army number:
Born 00-03-1919
Died 00-12-1993
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Name: Private Thomas Charles McMahon
Army number:
Born 9-5-1920
Died 1994, Wandsworth
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Name: Private Bernard Radwell
Army number:7893086
No.3 Platoon
Born
Died
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Name: Lance Corporal Ernest Hamilton Hewitt
Army number: 1443162
Born 24-8-1921, Portsmouth
Died 21-1 2004, Alton
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Name: Private Peter Edward Holt
Army number:
Born
Died
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Name: Private George Preston
Nickname "Titch"
Army number:
No.3 Platoon
Born
Died
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Name: Private Geoffrey van Rijssel
Army number:
No.1 Platoon
Born 00-00-1923, Belgium
Died
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Name: Private Terence William Fruin
Army number:
No.2 Platoon
Born 23-1-1924
Died 2001, Monmouth
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