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77. See WO 171/1248 21st Independent Parachute Company War Diary, entries for 19:25 & 22:00, 25/09/1944; and Kent, pp.129-130
78. See Kent, p.130; Private Kenneth Roberts is interred in Jonkerbos War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 15, Row B, Grave 3
79. See WO 171/1248 21st Independent Parachute Company War Diary, entry for 22:00, 25/09/1944; and Kent, p.130. According to the latter Lieutenant Horsley was killed outright but the CWGC records give his date of death as 27/09/1944; Lieutenant John Horsley is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 18, Row C, Grave 6
80. See WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entries for 13:00 to 21:15 & 21:15, 25/09/1944
81. Quoted from WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry 21:15, 25/09/1944; see also WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ War Diary, Appendix F, entry for 23:00, 25/09/1944
82. For HQ move off time see WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ War Diary, Appendix F, entry for 23:00, 25/09/1944
83. See WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entries for 21:15 and 22:15 to 02:00, 25/09/1944
84. See WO 171/1511 4th Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entries for 21:15 & 21:20, 25/09/1944; and WO 171/1513 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 21:15, 25/09/194
85. See WO 171/1511 4th Parachute Squadron RE War Diary, entries for 22:15 and 22:30, 25/09/1944
86. See WO 171/1513 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE War Diary, entries for 21:27 and 22:30, 25/09/1944
87. See WO 171/1609 261 (Airborne) Field Park Company RE War Diary, Appendix H, entry for 25/09/1944. Sapper Lennox Tod Anderson is interred in Amerongen (Holleweg) General Cemetery, Utrecht, Holland, Grave 7. Sapper Clarke is listed by the CWGC as belonging to the 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE but the name Clarke does not appear in that unit’s casualty roll, although a Sapper Clarke is listed and noted as failing to reach the 261 Field Park Company RV on the south bank of the Lower Rhine whilst attached to the 9th Field Company; see WO 171/1609 261 (Airborne) Field Park Company RE War Diary, Appendix H, Para. ’17 Sep Transit Camps UK’ and entry for 25/09/1944; and WO 171/1513 9th (Airborne) Field Company RE War Diary, ‘Appendix “B”: List of Casualties on Operation “Market”’. Sapper Kenneth Clarke is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 18, Row B, Grave 15
88. See WO 166/15077 1st Battalion The Border Regiment War Diary, Appendix A, entry for 25/09/1944; and Green, pp.78-79
89. Quoted from WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ War Diary, entry for 23:00, 25/09/1944; see also ibid., Appendix F, entry for 23:00, 25/09/1944
90. See Green, pp.79-80
91. See WO 166/15077 1st Battalion The Border Regiment War Diary, Appendix A, entry for 25/09/1944; and Green, p.80
92. See Cholewczynski, Poles Apart, pp.260-261
93. See WO 171/589 1st Airlanding Brigade HQ War Diary, entry for 23:00, 25/09/1944; and Green, p.80
94. See WO 179/3129 20th Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix VI; and Sliz, pp.77-78
95. Quoted from WO 179/3129 20th Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix VI
96. See Sliz, p.79-80
97. For Sergeant Petrie’s MM citation see The Pegasus Archive website, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Sergeant Frederick John Petrie’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/frederick_john_petrie.htm, accessed 21/07/2018
98. See WO 179/3129 20th Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix VI
99. See WO 179/3129 20th Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix VI
100. Quoted from Henniker, An Image of War, pp.191-192
101. See ibid., p.191
102. See ibid., pp.189-190; and Sliz, p.81
103. See Ryan, p.522; and Middlebrook, p.430
104. See Sliz, p.81
105. See Ryan, p.530
106. Quoted from ibid., p.524; see also Bankhead, p.162
107. For Sergeant Hilton and Sapper Denmark’s Military Medal citations see The Pegasus Archive website, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Awards Section, ‘Sergeant Fred Lord Hilton’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/fred_lord_hilton.htm and ‘Sapper Arthur Ernest Denmark’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/arthur_ernest_denmark.htm, accessed 20/07/2018
108. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; and Sliz, p.82. Lieutenant James Russell Martin in interred in Holten Canadian War Cemetery, Overijssel, Holland in Plot 11, Row G, Grave 3; Lance-Corporal Daniel W. Ryan is interred in Rhenen General Cemetery, Utrecht, Holland in in Plot 27, Row B, Grave 2; Sapper Harold Magnusson is interred in Gorinchem General Cemetery, Zuid-Holland, Holland in Plot L, Row 7, Grave 3 with a date of death of 14/11/1944; Sapper Leslie Joseph Roherty has no known grave and is commemorated on the Groesbeek Memorial, Gelderland, Holland, Panel 10
109. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; and Sliz, The Storm Boat Kings, pp.83, 87. Sapper David L. G. Hope interred in Rhenen General Cemetery, Utrecht, Holland in in Plot 27, Row B, Grave 7; Sapper Neil A. Thompson is interred in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 29, Row A, Grave 8
110. See Sliz, p.83
111. Testimony from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Preston, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General 1st Airborne Division quoted in Christopher Hibbert, Arnhem, p.178; cited in Sliz, p.84
112. Testimony from Lieutenant John Cronyn and Sergeant Sandy Morris, 23rd Field Company RCE; cited in Sliz, pp.83-84
113. See Cholewczynski, Poles Apart, pp.257-259, 263-265
114. See WO 171/396 1 Airborne Division HQ Royal Artillery War Diary, entry for 22:00, 25/09/1944
115. See WO 171/393 1st Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 22:30, 25/09/1944
116. See Urquhart, p.174; for Private Hancock becoming Urquhart’s batman see Baynes, p.31
117. See Urquhart, p.172; and Baynes, p.148
118. See Urquhart, pp.174-175; for a photograph of Urquhart standing next to the lance and pennant see for example Baynes, Plate 18 between pp.82-83
119. See Urquhart, pp.174-175
120. See Middlebrook, p.430
121. See for example Steel & Hart, pp.413-414
122. For Brigadier Hicks see Middlebrook, p.430; for Major Lonsdale see for example The Pegasus Archive, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Major Richard Thomas Henry Lonsdale’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/dickie_lonsdale.htm, accessed 16/07/2018
123. See Kershaw, pp.316-320
124. For lack of reverse gear see Sliz, p.82
125. Quoted from Urquhart, pp.176-177
126. See WO 171/396 1 Airborne Division HQ Royal Artillery War Diary, entry for 22:00, 25/09/1944
127. See WO 171/1016 1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA War Diary, entry for 22:00, 25/09/1944 & 05:00, 26/09/1944; for firing off ammunition and removing breech blocks see Ryan, p.526
128. See Cholewczynski, Poles Apart, pp.256, 259, 262-263
129. See WO 171/1236 1st Parachute Battalion War Diary, entries for 23:00, 25/09/1944 and 04:00, 26/09/1944
130. See WO 171/1238 3rd Parachute Battalion War Diary, composite entry for 23:30, 25/09/1944
131. See WO 171/1244 11th Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 23:30, 25/09/1944 and 26/09/1944; and Middlebrook, Appendix 1 ‘Order of Battle and Operational Details, 1st British Airborne Division and Attached Units’, entry for 11th Parachute Battalion, p.457
132. Quoted from WO 171/1375 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary, Appendix J1 ‘2nd South Staffords at Arnhem 17-25 Sept 1944’
133. See WO 171/1375 2 South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary, Appendix J1 ‘2nd South Staffords at Arnhem 17-25 Sept 1944’; and Haines, The Holland Patch, pp.105-107
134. 139 figure cited in WO
171/1375 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary, Appendix J1 ‘2nd South Staffords at Arnhem 17-25 Sept 1944’, broken down to six Officers and 133 Other Ranks; 124 figure cited in Middlebrook, Appendix 1 ‘Order of Battle and Operational Details, 1st British Airborne Division and Attached Units’, entry for 2nd South Staffords, p.457
135. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’
136. Quoted from WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’
137. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; for additional discussion of the point see Sliz, p.87
138. See WO 177/359 Assistant Director Medical Services 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entries for 07:00, 12:30 and 16:00, 25/09/1944
139. See WO 177/359 Assistant Director Medical Services 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entries for 23:30, 25/09/1944 and 01:00, 26/09/1944; and WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’
140. See Sliz, p.84
141. See Essame, The 43rd Wessex Division at War, p.137
142. See WO 177/359 Assistant Director Medical Services 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entries for 01:00 & 04:30, 26/09/1944; for details of the Reception Centre see WO 171/394 1 Airborne Division HQ Seaborne Element War Diary, entries for 09:00 and 15:00, 25/09/1944
143. See WO 177/359 Assistant Director Medical Services 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entry for 05:00, 26/09/1944; and Essame, p.137
144. Testimony from Lance-Sergeant George King, 23rd Field Company RCE; cited in Sliz, p.89
145. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, entry for 26/09/1944; and Sliz, The Storm Boat Kings, p.94 and Appendix 4: The Casualties, p.118. Sapper Ronald Tracy McKee is interred in Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, Gelderland, Holland in Plot 9, Row C, Grave 1
146. See WO 166/15077 1st Battalion The Border Regiment War Diary, Appendix A, entry for 25/09/1944; and Cholewczynski, Poles Apart, p.262
147. Testimony from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Preston, Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General 1st Airborne Division, quoted in Hibbert, p.178; cited in Sliz, p.84
148. Quoted from Fairley, p.194
149. Quotes from WO 171/1608 260 Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 25/09/1944; and WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’
150. See WO 171/1608 260 Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 25/09/1944
151. Testimony from Private D. J. Charlton, R Company 1st Parachute Battalion and Lieutenant John Cronyn, 23rd Field Company RCE; cited in Sliz, pp.85-86, 87
152. See ibid., pp.87-89
153. See ibid., p.89
154. For details see ibid., p.35 and figs ‘Instruction Plate Detail’ & ‘Evinrude Model #8008’ diagram, p.37
155. See ibid., pp.89-90
156. See Fairley, p.194
157. Testimony from Private John Crosson, No. 6 Platoon, B Company, 7th KOSB; cited in Sliz, p.92
158. See ibid., p.90
159. Testimony from Major Alan Bush, Second-n-Command, 3rd Parachute Battalion; cited in Middlebrook, p.430
160. Testimony from Lieutenant John Stevenson, OC 1 Section, A Troop, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron; cited in Fairley, p.194
161. For 150 figure and quote see WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’
162. See Ryan, pp.525-526, 527
163. See Fairley, p.195. Captain James Graeme Ogilvy’s body was recovered from the Lower Rhine by Dutch Resistance members the following day fifteen miles downstream near Rhenen; he is interred in Rhenen General Cemetery, Utrecht, Holland in in Plot 27, Row C, Grave 12
164. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; and Sliz, p.94
165. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; and Sliz, p.92; for Sapper LeBouthillier’s Military Medal citation at The Pegasus Archive website, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Awards Section, ‘Sapper Raymond LeBouthillier ’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/raymond_lebouthillier.htm, accessed 20/07/2018
166. See WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; Ellis, Victory in the West, Volume II: The Defeat of Germany, p.55; and Middlebrook, p.435
167. See WO 171/394 1 Airborne Division HQ Seaborne Element War Diary, entry for 06:00, 26/09/1944
168. See Urquhart, pp.181-182; Brammall, p.97; Fairley, p.198; and Middlebrook, p.435
169. See Middlebrook, p.435. Interestingly there is no mention of the prisoner in the 21st Independent Company War Diary of semi-official account
170. Quoted from WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 02:00 to 06:00, 26/09/1944
171. See Fairley, pp.195-196
172. See WO 177/359 ADMS 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entry for 22:30, 25/09/1944
173. See WO 171/406, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron War Diary, appended account in entry for 25/09/1944
174. See WO 166/15077 1 Border Regiment War Diary, Appendix ‘A’, entry for 26/09/1944; and WO 171/1375 2 South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary, entry for 26/09/1944; and ibid., Appendix J1 ‘2nd South Staffords at Arnhem 17-25 Sept 1944’
175. Testimony from Trooper Stanley Collishaw, HQ Troop, 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron; cited in Fairley, p.195
176. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, ‘Section V – Operations on the Island 21 to 26 Sep’, Para. 58 ‘The Evacuation – night 25/26 September’; and Essame, p.137
177. Quotes from WO 171/1236 1 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 04:00, 26/09/1944; and WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 02:00 to 06:00, 26/09/1944
178. See Faulkner-Brown, pp.84-85
179. See WO 177/359 ADMS 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entry for 05:00, 26/09/1944; for Stevenson quote see Fairley, p.196
180. See WO 171/1236 1 Parachute Battalion War Diary, entry for 04:00, 26/09/1944; WO 171/1234 1 Wing Glider Pilot Regiment War Diary, entry for 01:30, 26/09/1944; WO 166/15077 1 Border Regiment War Diary, Appendix “A”, entry for 26/09/1944; WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 02:00 to 06:00, 26/09/1944; and WO 171/1375 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment War Diary, Appendix J1 ‘2nd South Staffords at Arnhem 17-25 Sept 1944’
181. See Ryan, p.532
182. See Fairley, p.195
183. See WO 177/359 ADMS 1 Airborne Division War Diary, entry for 08:30, 26/09/1944
184. See WO 171/394 1 Airborne Division Seaborne Element War Diary, entry for 23:30, 25/09/1944; and WO 171/590 1 Airlanding Brigade HQ Seaborne Element War Diary, entry for 26/09/1944
185. Quoted from WO 171/1323 7th Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers War Diary, entry for 02:00 to 06:00, 26/09/1944
186. See Kent, p.131
187. See Ryan, p.530; and HMSO, By Air to Battle, p.130
188. See WO 171/394 1 Airborne Division Seaborne Element War Diary, entry for 06:00, 26/09/1944
189. See WO 171/590 1 Airlanding Briga
de HQ Seaborne Element War Diary, entry for 26/09/1944
190. See Arnhem, p.178; and Henniker, p.192
191. See Urquhart, p.179
192. See WO 171/393 1 Airborne Division HQ War Diary, entry for 14:30, 26/09/1944; and ibid. Appendix ‘Report on Operation Market’, Part I: General Outline of Operations, Section 10 ‘The Return from Nijmegen to UK’, Para. 198; for dinner party see Urquhart, p.184
193. See Urquhart, p.183
194. Quoted from ibid., p.179
195. See ibid., pp.179-180
196. See Baynes, p.151
197. See Urquhart, p.180
198. See Sliz, p.96
199. See CAB 44/254 Part II: Operation MARKET GARDEN, Book III, Chapter VII, ‘Section V – Operations on the Island 21 to 26 Sep’, Para. 58 ‘The Evacuation – night 25/26 September’; and Henniker, p.192
200. For 04:00 timing see WO 179/3129 20th Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix VI
201. See Henniker, p.192
202. See ibid., p.192
203. See WO 179/3129 20th Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix VI; WO 179/3130 23rd Field Company RCE War Diary, Appendix: ‘Report on the Evacuation of Survivors of 1st Airborne Tps from their bridgehead at Arnhem and the River Neder Rijn at Arnhem’; and WO 171/1608 260 Field Company RE War Diary, entry for 25/09/1944
204. See Sliz, p.95
205. Testimony from 2nd Lieutenant Szczesny Relidzinski, Brigade HQ Section, Signals Company, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade; cited in ibid., pp.95-96. For Major Vinycomb’s presence see Essame, p.138; and Henniker, p.192
206. See Sliz, p.96
207. See ibid., p.96
208. Testimony from Private John Ranger, 20 Platoon, D Company, 1st Battalion The Border Regiment; cited in ibid., p.97
209. See ibid., p.98
210. Testimony from Lieutenant Russell Kennedy, 23rd Field Company RCE; cited in ibid., p.98
211. For the Lieutenant Kennedy’s Military Cross and Sapper McCready’s Military Medal citations see The Pegasus Archive website, Battle of Arnhem Archive, Biographies Section ‘Lieutenant Russell Jordan Kennedy’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/russell_jordan_kennedy.htm; and ‘Sapper David John McCready’ at www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/david_john_mccready.htm, accessed 25/07/2018