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Normandy (Operation Overlord)
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe commonly known as D-Day, saw the 6th Airborne Division in action f...
G Wainwright enlisted into The Sherwood Foresters and then volunteered for airborne forces.He qualified as a military parachutist on course 101 which ran at RAF Ringway from 31 January to 13 February 1944 and served in A Company, 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion.
L/Cpl Wainwright was wounded on the Rhine drop on 23 March 1945.
Service History
- Date not known 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion (Lance Corporal)