Men of No 3 Plt, ‘R’ company, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st British Airborne Division armed with Bren gun and no.4 rifles defend a large shell hole outside Arnhem, The Netherlands during Operation Market Garden, September 1944.
Representing their comrades who died on this day
1917
+WATSON, J G
Mercantile Marine Reserve. Trimmer. G/9218. HMS Stonecrop. Died 18/09/1917. Age 16. Son of William and Marion Watson, Bentinck St., Belfast. Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 26
1918
+PAISLEY, William
RNR. Lieutenant. HMS Africa. Died18/09/1918. Age 29. Born Belfast. Son of John and Catherine Paisley, Oak Terr., Beech St., Liverpool. Freetown (King Tom) Cemetery
1940
+HARRISON, Henry Herbert
RAF. Sergeant.538889. Died 18/09/1940. Aged 23. 149 Sqdn. Lost on operations over La Havre. Son of Henry and Annie Harrison, of Belfast. Runnymeade Panel 15
1944
+CRORY, William Samuel
RAFVR. Sergeant. 1523061. Died 18/09/1944. Aged 22. Son of William Crory, and of Elizabeth Crory of Ballyward. Drumgooland Presbyterian Churchyard
VETERANS
McCULLY, Andrew Lowry
RAMC. Lieutenant. QCB 1890, MB 1997. Born 1872. Son of Rev James and Mrs Lowry McCully, Bloomfield Presbyterian Church, Castleblaney. Died 18/09/1942
WRIGHT, Peter Paul
RAMC. Lieutenant. Marist College, Dundalk. QUB MB 1914. BCh MD 1919. FRCS Edinburgh 1921. Served in Salonika and Gallipoli. Born 1892 Murroe, Co Limerick. Son of James (RIC Sergeant retired) and Ellen Wright. Died Belfast 18/09/1952. Milltown Cemetery, Belfast
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