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Arnhem (Operation Market Garden)
1st Allied Airborne Corps, which included the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, was tasked to secure the main canal...
John E Harper enlisted into 2 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery and volunteered for airborne forces in early 1944.He completed parachute training course 108 at RAF Ringway between 19 and 31 March 1944 and was posted to 8 Platoon, C Company, The 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment.
L/Col Harper saw active service on Operation Market Garden, where he was taken a Prisoner of War.
He was demobbed in February 1946.
Service History
- Date not known The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) (Lance Corporal)
- 1942 3rd, Battalion Parachute regiment (Lance Corporal)