1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery went into to battle with 191 men, 23 were killed, 13 of them are missing since.
Name: BOOTH, Henry
Rank: Gunner
Age: 21
No. 14242303
Unit: A Troop
Missing since:17-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Bertha Booth, of Rye, Sussex.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: He was either killed in the glider he was in whilst landing, or killed shortly after leaving the glider.
Name: HAMMOND, Ronald
Rank: Gunner
Age: 25
No. 1448688
Unit: HQ Troop
Missing since:19/20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Frederick John and Florence Hammond, of Barrow-in-Furness,Lancashire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been been killed by mortar fire in a garden behind 1st Parachute Brigade HQ near Arnhem road Bridge.
(See map below F6)
Name: LOCK, Arthur Frederick
Rank: Gunner
Age: 24
No. 875607
Unit: B Troop
Missing since:20/21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Nora Daisy Elvira Lock, of Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Son of Joseph and Beatrice Lock
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have died of his wounds in a First Aid Post near the Arnhem road bridge area.
(Collection P. Reinders)
Name: WARWICK, Thomas Stanley
Rank: Gunner
Age: 22
No. 1427378
Unit: P Troop
Missing since:23-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Beryl Elsie Warwick, of King's Norton, Birmingham.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed behind his 17 pounder gun, west of Hartenstein, Gunner Richardson and Gunner Larkin, who were operating on the same also got killed on the same time.
(See map below C5)
The Evening Despatch
05-12-1944
Gunner Warwick
(collection N.Jesko)
Name: RAMS, Max
Rank: Sergeant
Age: 28
No. 1094468
Unit: D Troop
Missing since:18-09-1944
Next of Kin: Enfield Highway, Middlesex.
Groesbeek Panel: 1
KIA Information: Said to have been wounded in the Mariendaal area, and murdered by the Germans when the Aid Post he was in was over run by SS Troops.
Name: COOK, Leslie Ronald
Rank: Bombardier
Age: 21
No. 872059
Unit: P Troop
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Thomas and Florence Cook, of Lawford, Essex.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Said to be killed somewhere along the Utrechtseweg.
5.8ft-light hair
The grave 1.C.18 at Arnhem-Oosterbeek war cemetery holds the body of an unknown Bombardier found in the mass grave at house "De Vergarde" at the Utrechtseweg. However there is no proof other then the same body lenght then that of Bombardier Cook.
Name: FORDER, Frederick George
Rank: Gunner
Age: 21
No. 1137514
Unit: HQ Troop
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Yarmouth.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Said to be have been died of wounds in the Hartenstein Hotel.
(See map below C6)
Name: RICHARDSON, Albert Cornwall
Rank: Gunner
Age: 27
No. 14208187
Unit: P Troop
Missing since:25-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Frank and Alice Richardson, of Walworth, London.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed behind his 17 pounder gun, west of Hartenstein, Gunner Warwick and Gunner Larkin, who were operating on the same also got killed on the same time.
(See map below C5)
Name: ROBSON, George
Rank: Gunner
Age: 26
No. 1491471
Unit: C Troop
Missing since:26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Stephen and Emily Robson, of Cramlington, Northumberland.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed whilst driving a jeep towing a 6 pounder gun, on 17-09-1944, near the crossroad Utrechtseweg-Van Borsellenweg, he was buried there beside the road and destroyed battery jeep.
(See map below C4)
Name: WEATHERELL, William Henry Bradley
Rank: Gunner
Age: 28
No. 11423301
Unit: HQ Troop
Missing since:19-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Greta Weatherell, of Shildon, County Durham.
Son of Harry Davidson and Sarah Jane Weatherell.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: He was driving in a jeep with Captain Bear, and was killed when it was shot up in Oosterbeek, probably in the Hartenstein Hotel area.
Name: RYDEN, Lionel George Henry
Rank: Lance Bombardier
Age: 21
No. 872082
Unit: C Troop
Missing since:20-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of George H and Shelagh May Ryden, of Colwyn Bay, Denbigshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed near the church at Oosterbeek in a slit trench. A officer stated that
he was killed in a jeep at Utrechtseweg, but this seems to be a case of mistaken identity
5.10ft Brown hair
(See map below E6/7)
Name: BAXTER, Bertie
Rank: Gunner
Age: 36
No. 1070053
Unit: D Troop
Missing since:21-09-1944
Next of Kin: Husband of Elsie Baxter, of Windhill, Shipley, Yorkshire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Known to have been killed by his 17 pounder gun in front of the Hartenstein Hotel.
(See map below C6)
Name: OGDEN, Ronald
Rank: Gunner
Age: 18
No. 14711343
Unit: C Troop
Missing since:26-09-1944
Next of Kin: Son of Walter George and Winnifred Amy Ogden, of Downend, Glouchestershire.
Groesbeek Panel: 2
KIA Information: Killed during a German barrage on the tennis courts of Hartenstein sport grounds.
(See map below C5)
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