210. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, Appendix A, Section II ‘Operations in the area Grave-Nijmegen – 17/20 Sep.’, Para. 16 ‘Gds Armd Div ‒ Narrative 19 Sep.’; and LoFaro, p.350. Corporal Boling is referred to as a Private and Private First Class elsewhere in this work and by Nordyke
211. See Verney, p.105. Lieutenant John Alan Moller is interred in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland Plot 22, Row F, Grave 1
212. See Nordyke, p.99
213. See LoFaro, p.369
214. See WO 171/1253 1 (Motorised) Battalion Grenadier Guards War Diary, entry for 19/09/1944; and Forbes, The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-45, p.134; both cited in Reynolds, Sons of the Reich, p.143
215. See Nordyke, pp.98-99; and LoFaro, p.350
216. See Horrocks, Corps Commander, pp.109-110; cited in LoFaro, p.350
217. See Gavin, On to Berlin, pp.170-171
218. Quotes from ibid., p.172
219. See Kershaw, pp.144-145; for six Panther figure see Rapport & Northwood, Rendezvous with Destiny, p.317
220. See Kershaw, p.145
221. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, Appendix A, Section IV ‘Operations south of Grave – 19/20 Sep.’, Para. 41 ‘Movement up the 30 Corps axis 19/20 Sep’; and Rapport & Northwood, pp.315-317
222. See Rapport & Northwood, p.317; and Kershaw, pp.146-147
223. Quoted from Rapport & Northwood, p.317
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1. See for example The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lance-Sergeant Harold Padfield’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/harold_padfield.htm, accessed 16/06/2013
2. See Frost, A Drop Too Many, pp.223, 229
3. See The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lance-Sergeant Harold Padfield’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/harold_padfield.htm, accessed 16/06/2013
4. See Frost, pp.228-229
5. For details see Otway, Airborne Forces, pp.47-48
6. Quoted from Sims, Arnhem Spearhead, pp.77-78
7. Testimony from Driver James Wild, 3 Platoon, 250 (Airborne) Light Composite Company RASC; cited in Middlebrook, Arnhem 1944, p.309
8. See Middlebrook, p.308; and The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lieutenant John Patrick Barnet’ at http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/pat_barnett.htm, accessed 18/06/2013
9. Testimony from Sturmann Horst Weber, possibly from SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 21; cited in Kershaw, It Never Snows in September, p.178
10. See testimony from Leo Hall dated 2001 at The Pegasus Archive website, Biographies Section, ‘Bombardier J. Leo Hall at http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/Leo_Hall.htm, accessed 24/07/2013; and WO 171/398 1 Airborne Division Signals War Diary, entry for 08:40, 20/09/1944
11. See WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 08:20, 20/09/1944; quotes from Urquhart, Arnhem, p.104
12. See WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 09:25, 20/09/1944
13. See Frost, p.228
14. See WO 171/1509 1st Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entries for 07:00-09:00 & 09:15, 20/09/1944
15. See WO 166/14933 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA War Diary, entry for 07:00, 20/09/1944
16. See Urquhart, pp.99-100
17. Testimony from Rottenführer Rudolf Trapp, 3 Kompanie, SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 21; cited in Kershaw, p.177
18. Testimony from Rottenführer Rudolf Trapp, 3 Kompanie, SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 21; cited in ibid., pp.177-178
19. See Middlebrook, p.310
20. Timing cited in WO 171/1509 1st Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entry for 09:40, 20/09/1944
21. See for example Powell, The Devil’s Birthday, pp.131-132; and Nordyke, All American All The Way, pp.82-100
22. See Urquhart, p.100
23. Testimony from Lieutenant Donald Hindley, OC HQ Troop and Intelligence Officer, 1st Parachute Squadron RE; cited in Middlebrook, p.311; timings and strength cited in WO 171/1509 1st Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entry for 10:00, 20/09/1944
24. Timings and strength cited in WO 171/1509 1st Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entries for 10:20, 11:00 & 11:30, 20/09/1944; for Lieutenant Hindley’s wounds see Middlebrook, p.311. For details of Lieutenant Grayburn’s VC citation and the recovery of his body see The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lieutenant John Hollington Grayburn’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/jack_grayburn.htm, accessed 31/07/2013. Lieutenant John Hollington Grayburn VC is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland, Plot 13, Row C, Grave 11
25. See WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ War Diary, entries for 02:30 and 04:45, 20/09/1944; and WO 171/398 1 Airborne Division Signals War Diary, entries for 02:00 and 04:40, 20/09/1944
26. See WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 01:40, 19/09/1944
27. See Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, pp.285-287; Middlebrook, p.233; and WO 171/1513 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 19/09/1944
28. See WO 166/15077 1st Battalion The Border Regiment War Diary, entry for 19/09/1944; and Green, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment, p.33
29. For details of Browning’s campaign to secure control of the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade see for example William F. Buckingham, Arnhem 1944: A Reappraisal, pp.43-48
30. See Sikorski Institute AV 20/31/27 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade War Diary, entries for 08:45, 09:15 & 10:00, 20/09/1944; quote from Cholewczynski, Poles Apart, p.115
31. For details of Festung MG Bataillon 37 see the Defending Arnhem website, German Order of Battle, Battle for the Betuwe Section, ‘Fest. MG Btl 37’ at http://www.defendingarnhem.com/Fest-MG-Btl-37.html; accessed 23/08/2013
32. See Kershaw, pp.228-233
33. Quoted from Urquhart, p.103
34. For the conference call see WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 06:00, 20/09/1944; for attendees see WO 171/1234 1 Wing Glider Pilot Regiment War Diary, entry for 08:10, 20/09/1944; and WO 171/406 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron War Diary, entry for 09:00, 20/09/1944
35. See WO 166/14933 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA War Diary, ‘Report by Lieutenant-Colonel R.F.K. Thompson’, entry for 20/09/1944; and Middlebrook, p.327
36. For Dutch Resistance involvement in bringing the existence of the Heveadorp ferry to Urquhart’s attention see Ryan, pp.334-335; for Major Winchester’s survey see WO 171/1513 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 19/09/1944
37. See WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade War Diary, Appendix A, entry for 08:30, 20/09/1944; Captains Edward Alfred Moy-Thomas and William Raymond Burns and Lieutenant Anthony Robert Thomas are interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 16, Row B, Grave 15, Plot 1, Row A, Grave 16 and Plot 1, Row A, Grave 11 respectively. Captain Stuart Leslie Blatch has no known grave and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial, Panel 2
38. See WO 171/406 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron War Diary, entry for 08:00, 20/09/1944
39. Quoted from WO 171/1238 3rd Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for night 19th/20th, 19/09/1944
40. See WO 171/1244 11th Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 20/09/1944
41. See WO 171/1244 11th Parachute Battalion War Diary, Appendix A, entry for 20/09/1944
42. For timings, vehicle numbers and destruction of the lead assault gun see WO 171/1236 1st Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 08:00, 20/09/1944; WO 171/1238 3rd Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 08:00, 20/09/1944; for damage to the lead StuG see Zwarts, German Armoured Units at Arnhem, p.48
43. Testimony from Private James Gardner, 1st Parachute Battalion; cited in Middlebrook, p.332
44. See ibid., p.333; for the destruction of the half-track from SS FlaK Abteilung 9 see Zwarts, p.17
45. See WO 171/1236 1st Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 11:00, 20/09/1944
46. See WO 171/589 1st Airland
ing Brigade War Diary, entry for 11:00, 20/09/1944; and WO 171/1375 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary, entry for 20/09/1944; and ibid., Appendix: ‘2nd South Staffords at Arnhem 17-25 Sept 1944’
47. See WO 166/14933 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA War Diary, entries for 07:00 & 11:00, 20/09/1944
48. See WO 171/1244 11th Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 20/09/1944; WO 171/1238 3rd Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 12:30, 20/09/1944; and WO 171/1236 1st Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 14:00, 20/09/1944
49. See WO 171/1248 21st Independent Parachute Company War Diary, entry for 19/09/1944
50. See WO 171/1511 4th Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entry for ‘Night’, 19/09/1944; and ibid., Appendix I, entries for 18:00 & 19:00, 19/09/1944
51. See WO 171/1235 2 Wing Glider Pilot Regiment War Diary, entry for 20:30, 19/09/1944; and WO 171/1248 21st Independent Parachute Company War Diary, entry for 19/09/1944
52. See WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 19:00, 19/09/1944; and WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade War Diary, Appendix A, entries for 19:30 & 24:00, 19/09/1944
53. See WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entries for 01:00, 04:30 & 04:30-09:00, 20/09/1944
54. See Faulkner-Brown, A Sapper at Arnhem, p.51
55. See WO 171/1511 4th Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, Appendix I, entry for 08:00, 20/09/1944; and Faulkner-Brown, pp.51-52. The latter refers to the man killed by the sniper being Lance-Corporal Cyril Brown, but Lance-Corporal Brown is listed later in the work as being evacuated across the Lower Rhine at the end of the battle; see ibid., Appendix IV ‘4th Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers No. 3 Troop’, pp.124-125. Neither does Lance-Corporal Brown appear anywhere in the CWGC database
56. See Faulkner-Brown, p.53
57. See WO 171/1511 4th Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, Appendix I, entry for 10:00, 20/09/1944; and Faulkner-Brown, pp.53-54. The War Diary entry refers to Captain Thomas being killed outright and to Captain Brown seeing him dead, but Faulkner-Brown’s account explicitly refers to him visiting Thomas in the RAP and to him dying shortly afterward. Captain Nigel Beaumont Thomas is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 17, Row A, Grave 11; the CWGC renders his surname Beaumont-Thomas
58. See WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 09:00 to 13:00, 20/09/1944. Lieutenant Alexander Kirk Crighton is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 17, Row A, Grave; his name is rendered Creighton in the War Diary
59. See plate and caption in Faulkner-Brown, p.52
60. See WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 09:00 to 13:00, 20/09/1944
61. See Green, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment, p.42
62. See ibid., pp.40-41; the latter renders Lieutenant Bainbridge’s forename as John
63. Sergeant John Hunter is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 28, Row A, Grave 3
64. Testimony from Corporal Walter Collings, 10 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment; cited at The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Corporal Walter Collings’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/walter_collings.htm; accessed 16/10/2013
65. Testimony from Lieutenant Edmund Scrivener, OC 10 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment; cited at The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lieutenant Edmund Filford Scrivener’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/edmund_scrivener.htm; accessed 16/10/2013
66. See Testimony from Corporal Walter Collings, 10 Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment; cited at The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Corporal Walter Collings’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/walter_collings.htm; accessed 16/10/2013; and Green, pp.38-39
67. See Green, p.39. Corporal Thomas Edgar has no known grave and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial, Panel 4; the CWGC gives his date of death as 24/09/1944
68. See WO 171/1513 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 11:00, 20/09/1944
69. See Green, pp.38-40. Private James Wells is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 17, Row A, Grave 14
70. For timings see WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944; and WO 171/1247 156 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 07:00, 20/09/1944
71. See Middlebrook, p.282; for details of route, strengths etc., see WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944; and WO 171/1247 156 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 07:00, 20/09/1944
72. See WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944
73. 07:17 timing cited in WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944; 08:00 timing cited in WO 171/1247 156 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 08:00, 20/09/1944. The former refers to the 07:15 timestamp ‘fairly precisely’ but timings in this account are generally vague and several of the six-figure map grid references cited are also rendered incorrectly. As 156 Parachute Battalion timings are generally correct throughout, the latter timestamp is likely the more accurate
74. See WO 171/1247 156 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entries for 08:00 and 10:00, 20/09/1944; and The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Major Geoffrey Stewart Powell’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/geoffrey_powell.htm, accessed 31/10/2013. Lieutenant William Stewart Donaldson is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 21, Row B, Grave 10
75. Quoted from WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944
76. Hackett’s War Diary account refers to the summons arriving at 07:40, but the Division HQ War Diary records the contact at 08:22; see WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944; and WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 08:22, 20/09/1944
77. Figures cited in WO 171/1247 156 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 10:00, 20/09/1944
78. Quoted from WO 171/1247 156 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 12:00, 20/09/1944
79. Quoted from The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lieutenant Joseph Winston Glover’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/pat_glover.htm, accessed 30/10/2013
80. Quotes from WO 171/594 4th Parachute Brigade War Diary, Appendix C, entry for 20/09/1944
81. See Brammall, The Tenth, p.72
82. See Middlebrook, p.282; Captain Cedric Michael Horsfall has no known grave and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial, Panel 8
83. 13:10 timing cited in WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 13:10; quote from Urquhart, p.108
84. See Rapport & Northwood, Rendezvous with Destiny, p.318; and CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, Appendix A, Section IV ‘Operations south of Grave – 19/20 Sep.’, Para. 39, ‘30 Corps action in area Eindhoven-St. Oedenrode 19/20 Sep’
85. See Kershaw, p.147
86. See Rapport & Northwood, pp.323-325
87. See Kershaw, p.147
88. See Rapport & Northwood, pp.325-326
89. For a detailed account see ibid., pp.329-337
90. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, Appendix A, Section II ‘Operations in the area Grave-Nijmegen – 17/20 Sep.’, Para. 17 ‘The capture of the Nijmegen bridges – 20th Sep.’; and LoFaro, The Sword of St. Michael, pp.351-352
91. See ibid., p.368
92. See Nordyke, All American All The Way, pp.105-106
93. See LoFaro, p.368
94. See Nordyke, p.105
95. See LoFaro, pp.368-370
96. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, Appendix A, Section II ‘Operations in the area Grave-Nijmegen – 17/20 Sep.’, Para. 17 ‘The capture of the Nijmegen bridges �
� 20th Sep.’; and LoFaro, 369
97. See ibid., p.370
98. See Nordyke, pp.106-107
99. See MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, p.177
100. See Kershaw, pp.189-190; and Nordyke, pp.104-105
101. See MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, pp.177-178; and Nordyke, p.111
102. Quotes from LoFaro, p.353
103. See ibid., pp.353-354; timings cited in Gavin, On to Berlin, p.172
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1. Sometimes referred to as the Hof van Holland in US accounts; see for example MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, p.181
2. See MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, p.181; cited in Nordyke, All American All The Way, p.145
3. See LoFaro, The Sword of St. Michael, p.354; and Burriss, Strike and Hold, p.110
4. Testimony from Captain Carl W. Kappel, commanding Company H, 3rd Battalion 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment; cited in LoFaro, The Sword of St. Michael, p.354
5. See Gavin, On to Berlin, p.175
6. See Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, p.379; also cited in Nordyke, pp.103-104.
7. See Nordyke, p.125
8. See Captain Carl W. Kappel, The operations of Company “H”, 504th Parachute Infantry, pp.26-27; and LoFaro, p.355
9. See Nordyke, p.125
10. See ibid., p.124; and LoFaro, pp.355-356
11. See LoFaro, p.356; and Nordyke, p.125
12. 14:40 timing cited in LoFaro, p.356; 14:50 timing attributed to Captain Keep in Nordyke, p.126
13. See Nordyke, p.126
14. See Burriss, p.112; and LoFaro, pp.356-357
15. See LoFaro, p.356
16. See Nordyke, pp.126-128
17. See LoFaro, p.359
18. Quoted from ibid., p.359
19. See Burriss, pp.1143-114; and Nordyke, p.129
20. See Kappel, The operations of Company “H”, 504th Parachute Infantry, p.29
21. See LoFaro, pp.359 -360
22. See MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign, p.180
23. Quoted from LoFaro, p.362
24. See Kappel, The operations of Company “H”, 504th Parachute Infantry, pp.363-364
25. See Nordyke, pp.109-111
26. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, Appendix A, Section II ‘Operations in the area Grave-Nijmegen – 17/20 Sep.’, Para. 17 ‘The capture of the Nijmegen bridges – 20th Sep.’; and LoFaro, pp.369-370
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