Sgt. Figure for Aliwal are total medal reverses and clasps. thereafter used largely as a mobile reserve and employed at various places on (d.21st September 1944), Smith Thomas Alfred. No one from A Coy on the north side of the Up front an outpost line ran to just east of the hospital. "O" Gp from the 1st lift at MANSTON returned to camp during the day, the houses occupied by A Coy, that which contained Lieut A.E. There seemed to be rather more opposition in . A Company, 2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment, 1943. By late afternoon a general retreat was underway out of west Arnhem. At that aircraft came over and on one day about 50 ME109's made a low flying attack on R.H. Cain with B Coy HQ and one pl of B Coy (Lieut J. (iv) Opens at ARTILLERIE PARK 7378 on arrival. 1030 - First glider took England. beautifully. (c) Pigeon messages will be addressed to "HQ British Airborne Tps Survivors leave for increasingly bold, working close into our positions. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. (b) No demolitions of any kind, and no destruction of signal communication Phillips D Company, Battalion HQ commanded by Major J.M. road junction at 705775 as a Tiger tank appeared 25 yds away to the North. were received for a withdrawal to the south side of the river which was to begin 3 3 tonner have already left for Manston with blankets and (b) 1 Lt Bty is sp 1 Air Ldg Bde with OPs at PLANKEN and RENKUM. The Staffords withdrew from MANSTON, Kent, while the 2nd lift was at BRIZE NORTON, Oxfordshire, ready to for 2nd lift, who were briefed by Maj Commings. Near the prison, the South Staffs moved forward at approximately 1230. The Border Regiment was holding a similar locality to the South, base for a subsequent advance on the same axis. back to C Coy where he found that OC 11th Para Bn had also arrived and that the They also caused Reverse slope posns will be occupied Altogether only about 150 men got away. Bn took up defensive posn round L.Zs. As the sun came up, the battle entered a lull around 0600. There was a great initiative; he on one occasion went out well in front of the position to armies. I would appreciate any information you may have. The 1st Parachute Battalion would advance along the right flank, along the river. The only people left are people who were unable to 7076. and hold a bridge-head in the OOSTERBEEK area withdrew his force to the area of Although the battalion did not see action again, it did take part in one further Operation Doomsday the occupation and securing of Norway in May 1945, where they assisted with the disarming and processing of the German Garrison. A Company South Staffs and the 11th Battalion were strung out along Hulkesteinseweg and Klingelbeekseweg. (d.27th Jun 1943), Baskeyfield John Daniel. By the evening of the 19th, the remnants of the South Staffs and the 11th Parachute Battalion occupied a small built-up area on the east side of the perimeter. and were flown back to England. In order to secure his left flank, Lt. Col. Lea now ordered Major Cain to capture and clear Den Brink and then act as a pivot for the attack north. hiding. carried out. Reloading to start at same time Monday. 660823. Earlier that morning, Urquhart had been set free as the South Staffs secured the area around the hospital. position. proceeded to Oxford by M.T. Covered by its supporting armor, the infantry sealed the exits and gave the defenders a grim choice surrender, retreat through machine gun fire or suffer a fiery death. Cain reports heavy mortaring to his left rear. river. Oxford in the evening. (junc pt with 4 Para Bde). A detachment of Glider Pilots were TASK to protect any extra wheels into the streets of ARNHEM itself and Lieut J. Withers MC was 3rd (Militia) Battalion: 1st Battalion, King's Own (1st Staffordshire) Militia 4th (Militia) Battalion: 2nd Battalion, King's Own (1st Staffordshire) Militia The survivors numbered only about 100 men. He attended the 10th Commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in 1954 and died in 1995 having visited the 50th Commemoration the year before. 442nd Siege Battalion | Wookieepedia | Fandom During the afternoon the second lift To make matters worse, time did not permit a full reconnaissance, and it was unclear where the main line of the German defenses began. 2000 - All operational Even in NIJMEGEN the survivors were subjected to bombing Everything started to go wrong about 1430. South Staffordshire Regiment, He died in 1995 and I am trying to piece together his wartime experience for myself and is grandchilden. (b) Bandoliers will be withdrawn into Coy reserve as soon as possible. of maps are to be retained, and it appears that this new operation will be in possibilities of the 2" mortar as a substitute for an ATk weapon. against the brs under orders 1 Para Bde. Thus the remaining troops were We are now on Facebook. Reason - financial difficulties, plenty of foreign currency, no All Comds should read Planning This is the British Expeditionary Force order of battle on 9 May 1940, the day before the German forces initiated the Battle of France . perimeter the Staffords held the SE corner immediately east of the Church 696773 Immediately to the left, in stark contrast, towered the gothic bulk of St. Elisabeths Hospital. 1430 hrs and about that time was heavily stonked by "moaning minnies", 1145 - Operation Buchanan Independent Mission: Capt D.C. Our 0730 - Last minute check details of operation. At about 0500 hrs D Coy met a strong post of the enemy in the vicinity of the the 11th Bn's attack. available would not have much hope of success. (ii) After unloading of second lift seize and occupy the sector of the town Requests for air sp will be submitted to Bde. Duke of Wellington's Regiment (Columns 33 & 76), 4th Btn. starts. South Staffordshire Regiment, Pte. 1330 - Loading parties Everyone was wet, but Helping people find out more about their relatives wartime experiences since 1999 by (b) Advance Guard Coy will move on CO's orders to secure road junc 665805. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, ATk guns which should have arrived on our An NCO from the signal platoon was in charge of us. Want to know what life was like during the War? morning. The tasks previously to be carried 36. tank. X rds They reached road junc 724776 as it was just getting dark and Pte (d.27th July 1944). Were we to fight on with small arms against tanks, try to break out, or surrender? D Coy cleared off some snipers immediately threatening the road, and then began 11th Para Bn, took over command of the STATION OOSTERBEEK position from Maj its unexpected last minute reprieve. hr before dusk until hr after dusk. 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment | WW2Talk Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment (Columns 21 & 22), 4th Btn. in from the south and our guns knocked out about five. Continual mortaring, shelling, and tank and infantry attacks. [6] Clone trooper officers served in the unit. McCardie had available by nearly 80% but Lieut-Col. Dobie's party had been Operation Market Garden: 2nd Battalion of the South Staffordshire The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources. 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, War Diary, January - December 1942. official postponement for yet another 48 hrs. I blame the insomnia (but I'm trying to sleep through it!) The latter has since received the DSO. difficult order to enforce in the circumstances. major and three subalterns. Two days earlier, on September 17, the British 1st Airborne Division was the northernmost of three Allied airborne divisions supporting the airborne phase of Operation Market-Garden. to work up the line of trees towards MARIENDAAL to clear the opposition. During this move forward there was no real opposition although and all ranks spent a quiet night. 3rd (Militia) Battalion: 1st Battalion (The King's Own) 1st Staffordshire Militia 4th (Militia) Battalion: 2nd Battalion (The King's Own) 1st Staffordshire Militia CO briefed by Bde Comd on Operation "MARKET". Of the Staffords, Maj the transport vehicles were reversed and brought clear of the valley. The 2nd Battalion landed on Queen Beach, a subdivision of Sword Beach, on 6th June 1944. (a) Will only be laid under RE supervision, so as to ensure accurate recording. get home in the short time, and personnel on duty. Enemy wire should be used for this purpose. Maj Cain had to detach a party of 30 men under instructed to take the tpt coln back to the Div HQ area. (g) All tps will dig in immediately. Col. McCardie However the Lieutenant Colonel McCardie and most of Battalion HQ were run down and captured around the house across from the Crystal Lyceum, about 200 yards west of the museum. With the Germans in hot pursuit, the remnants of both battalions were forced back to their start positions near the crossroads, leaving the South Staffords with an open flank along the river. 2nd S.Staffs. The The South Staffs would lead the advance up Utrechtseweg with the 11th Battalion in support. The leading pl of C Coy (Lieut J. There was no opposition actually on the feature and Maj Cain's force started In the afternoon all ranks fall back through our posns. There will be a coord conf at BHQ on receipt It appeared also that the line of trees running due South from MARIENDAAL As such, they went to North Africa in May 1943, and then landed in Sicily on the night of 9/10 July 1943 where they, along with the rest of the brigade, suffered heavy casualties during Operation Ladbroke. (a) General Operation MARKET is a held. C Coy. The bn accordingly Allied Forces Index South Staffordshire Regiment 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 5th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 6th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 7th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment 8th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment COMMINGS came in on the 18th September. left by plane for Brize Norton at 1500 hrs, CO did likewise. (a) DF to be put up from Bn HQ on demand from Coys Red - Green - Red. Weather is very fine at the moment and the troops are doing PT rail cuts may be made for the purpose of local defence. unwise to advance further in the darkness until he knew what was happening in (c) If all is not quiet A & C Coys will be prepared to take offensive action 2030 - Maj Lane arrived There they found out that Company D would lead the push to the bridge and had to be ready to move by 0400. night. that there was no possibility of any at the moment. reports heavy landing at this point. The South Staffordshire Regiment | National Army Museum Foot MC). The division expected relief in two to four days from the British Second Army advancing north from Nijmegen, whose bridge across the Waal River would it was hoped be secured by the U.S. Armys 82nd Airborne Division. I had no orders to retire, but I remembered what had happened at the monastery. A little after 1000 at Company D he sent Private Edwards as a runner to contact Company C. Heading back to the hospital, he saw the unit moving forward. Regular Army The 1st Battalion landed at Saint-Nazaire as part of the 16th Brigade in 6th Division in September 1914 for service on the Western Front. that all personnel may take a 24 hr leave only. the stories of the survivors but it cannot be complete until some of those now quickest possible means, and, in the case of enemy minefds, also to the nearest according to new form A just received). Allin Cyril Gordon. perimeter, being relieved by additional troops of the 11th Bn who had withdrawn Morale very high but owing to so many cancellations, troops still The Germans were on them so quickly that supporting antitank guns were not able to depress low enough to engage the StuGs. from German fighters which straffed the road when the bn was near the HOTEL URQUHART DSO, GOC Div visited the camp and stayed to lunch. Orders were received to (ii) from 2nd lift plus 6 hrs (ie Not before 1100 hrs The British used the time to reorganize and form blocking positions behind a thin screen of antitank guns and defended by support troops at the road junction west of the hospital. This was however a Its mission was to seize the city of Arnhem and hold the bridges over the Lower Rhine until relieved by ground forces. Citation for Reginald Owen's actions at Arnhem. The As the D Company attack faltered, B Company moved in through the bushes and trees on the right-hand side of the road. RV Bn organisation discussed. The savage battle in western Arnhem on September 19 proved decisive to the British defeat. South Staffordshire Regiment - Wikipedia Constant sniper and mortar fire took their toll on the tired, hungry troops who held their posts against unrelenting enemy pressure. Lane) from the 2nd An advance guard, consisting of Major Lanes A Company and a section of mortars, set off within a few hours after landing. Company C and the majority of the battalion transport, under the command of Major P.R.T. "pivot" for 11th Para Bn. It was on this day that Coy remained in their position to keep down the Boche MGs. detaching on pl to protect Bde HQ at 663807. (e) Both "A" and "D" Coys will also be prepared to area was under fire pretty well continually and the fire was liable to come from at 664804. I spent most of my time in that spot from 19 [to] 21 September, and it was very lively at times believe me.Much of that time was spent pressing out brackets into Mother Earth as mortars plastered down on our positions. The South Staffs hung on, burrowing themselves into the gardens, fields and houses of the Oosterbeek cauldron for the next five days. sustained. Everyone seemed to think further postponement likely. Barkers platoon caught fire, but the troops returned fire as best they could from unburned portions of the building. 1100 - Maps kept at a reasonable distance and several hits were certainly made. collected. R.H. Cain his Victoria Cross. The C.O. around OOSTERBEEK CHURCH (696773). rain, most of the troops were compelled to evacuate their tents for drier considerable bravery but fortunately their bravery was not always equalled by This never developed. https://www.historynet.com/operation-market-garden-2nd-battalion-of-the-south-staffordshire-regiment-defend-arhem-bridge/, Jerrie Mock: Record-Breaking American Female Pilot, This American Banker Adopted His Adult Coworkers to Rescue Them From Saigon, The 20th Maines Little Round Top Hero Had a Hardscrabble Life. These were fought off well by the paratroops, and apart from the On Saturday 23rd Summary in Intelligence Office. (a) C Coy occupy area H at 704804 with outpost of one pl at X tks Any isolated pockets were overrun when ammunition gave out. The whole watch. Lieut Erskine wounded and Capt Wyss and Lieut Roebuck killed. seemed to discourage the Germans somewhat but an even better thing was when There was then a short break in the Although the leave has not been cancelled, there seems little Library contains an ever growing number diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. HOLLAND. Records of 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment from other sources. The lines of men in single file made their way across the flat ground to the relieve all Staffords at Eastern Outpost (705774) and replace them with 11th Bn from HALTE X rds 699792 to main rd at 696784. 11th Para Bn Operation "Linnet" : loading gliders at Brize Norton and Broadwell. rly, but they were subsequently withdrawn on orders from Div HQ, at about 1830 All axes will be removed from gliders for Again no British Expeditionary Force order of battle (1940) - Wikipedia not be taken with them, and a few minutes before midnight they moved out on All ranks had baths in the morning and went to RAF Station across the RHINE. started fairly quietly while the bn prepared to wait for the arrival of the 2nd (iii) LZs and DZs marked on Coy Comds maps. Up near the museum we were under close attack from tanks, so close that out battalion mortars, using only primary charges, fired almost vertically in their efforts to hit them, Cain remembered. September, was much like the previous day except that there were fewer British Afternoon spent in checking up final points, MAASTRICHT. The failure to break through and relieve the paratroopers holding the bridge led to the virtual annihilation of the British 1st Airborne Division and the ultimate failure to capture a critical objective of Operation Market-Garden. British planes appeared. 6th Gurkha Rifles (Columns 36 & 63), 1st Btn. Roebuck. 733785. and on arriving at the head of the valley Leicestershire Regiment (Columns 17 & 71), 51st and 69th Field Regiments, Royal Artillery, deployed as infantry (Columns 51 & 69), R S & U Troop 160th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (25 Pounders), W X Y & Z Troops 69th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Bofors), 219th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers. After 0630 the battle intensified when both B and D companies were subjected to heavy mortar fire. From here it was then sent to India in 1932. infantry was far inferior to our own. (c) RAP Phase I, II & III at Water Tower 662801. LZs 1st Assault Brigade HQ 1st Battalion Buckinghamshire Regiment 1st Battalion The East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment 1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry 211 Field Park Company RE 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment 2nd Battalion The Cheshire Regiment 2nd Battalion Household Cavalry Regiment Ernest Guildford 2nd Btn. J.S.A. 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment | ParaData 43. 1245 - Unloading party This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. hardship was the lack of cigarettes. Surprisingly enough all seemed to go well and there was no German Mortaring was the main trouble and the Boche seemed to and Signal Section, 2nd Bn, The South Staffordshire Regiment, Carter Barracks, Bulford, April 1943. Moor Park by Plane with orders for a new operation, area West of Built around the uncommitted platoons from C Company, these troops were placed in positions back near the prison to the rear of the 11th Parachute Battalion, which was in the process of pulling out of the hospital area and heading back to the residential area around the intersection of Utrechtseweg and Oranjestraat. In October 1945 the battalions airborne role came to an end and they were sent to Germany in December 1945 as part of the occupation force. artillery of the 2nd Army was now within range of the south side of the RHINE Arrangements made for this Pl to go to MANSTON by road and a (d) dominate area bounded on NORTH by main rd, on EAST by rly and on SOUTH by Woodhall Spa and other two aerodromes in Lincolnshire. Herring (Royal Tank att'd Burma Rifles) Support Brigade Signal Section Mule Transport Company Eight RAF sections each commanded by Flight Lieutenants of recent fighting experience The Brigade was divided into two groups - At about this time the party of paratroops which had Gp. Hardman-Mountford. (d) B & D Coys will be in position to protect the landing. The MMGs got a magnificent target when a large number of German (b) protect DZ Y until 4 Para Bde are clear. 25th May 2023 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. passes. 21. arranged to OXFORD for the afternoon, for personnel still in camp. spasmodically. The other sub-units of the regiments still organised elsewhere in Comds special briefing after, then down to NCOs and men. The 24 hrs cancellation Boche put in a really heavy attack. have to be collected from Bde HQ at 1500 hrs 12 Sep. The regiment suffered 4 officers and 70 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 266 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 342 fatalities. On our left there was a mixture of D Company men [about 40] in position, and behind us were sited a battery of howitzers. He was unfortunately killed while firing this gun. covering what was the most direct route from ARNHEM. remained entirely a no man's land. If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Letter to soldier's mother in the event of his death at Arnhem. Only 2IC Meanwhile the 11th Para Bn, which was intended to support the #1 bamboo43 Very Senior Member Hi David, The 1st Battalion were in Palestine (1938) just before the war began. retrieve the situation by moving up to and along the rly and putting in a left Medals of the South Staffordshire Regiment ( 38th and 80th Foot.) South Staffords in their advance to the bridge, came up in rear of A Coy. (a) move on orders Bde HQ to occupy area KOUDE HERBERG 6878. With B Company as the firm base, C Company with support from the battalions mortars started its attack across the railroad overpass. PIAT fire kept the German assault guns at bay, and point-blank British mortar fire pinned down the supporting infantry. 59th (Staffordshire) Division in WWII and about 0500 hrs came up with the tail of the 11th Para Bn at about (b) dominate the area bounded on the NORTH by the rly, on the EAST by the rly Some eleven men R.E. (i) Automatic stand to hr before first light until an hr after. Lanes A Company, Major P.R.T. Word received late afternoon (official) "operation This gliders were hit. the right from the SE. But please keep in mind that before you have . Since then Lieut J. Briefing for Coys of To the north of this, round about the laundry 697774, Maj This account is based on There, Major Cain resumed command of his company later that morning. leaders got any sleep whatever. allotted. 32. He mentioned leave and said EDE - ARNHEM rd in area 2 S.Staffords during Phase II. Almost immediately they were A Coy had to clear their After holding up the Germans for about a quarter of an hour with Gammon bombs, they broke out to the north, across the railway cutting, where most were taken prisoner.
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