British Airborne Service and Pay Books

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6284345 William Alfred Strand of 1st Airborne Provost Company - for Sicily he was attached to 3 Para but was taken POW

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3600710 Victor Walker of 1 Border who served with the unit through Dunkirk, Sicily, Italy, Arnhem and Norway - at Arnhem he was platoon Sergeant of 18 Platoon

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6298903 Ivor Harold Wickersham who was a member of the Glider Pilot Regiment - at some point he broke bones in both feet - probably in a training accident

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6103816 John Allan Butler, born 18/06/22, enlisted 29/01/41, died 10/09/43, 2nd South Staffs

Private Butler was a member of B Company 2nd (Airborne) South Staffordshire Regiment - I think he was with 11 platoon, he was killed on Sicily

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_...sualty=2066120

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5683148 Maurice DOWDEN, no idea what unit he was with at the time but he was granted the parachute badge 20/6/43 (he had been Buffs and later was REME)

[vd Lubbe]

Nice collection ... nice to see the one of Anderson 261 Fld Prk Coy. RE

[border85]

the border regiment.

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2061910 Terence Francis George LOVELL of the 1st Airborne Division Workshop REME, he landed at Arnhem on the 18th and gets a few mentions in "With Spanners Descending", he made it back safely over the Rhine. If anyone else has any other information on him I'm interested or if he gets a mention in any other books.

[thomas.ham]

Airborne

Nice groups, I'm normally a German collector but have just got a 3 Para group to a Sgt inc. all documents. I'll post on here when I get a chance.

[AB64]

Be interesting to see that

Cheers

Alistair

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3532633 J M Thickett of 2nd Airlanding Anti-tank artillery who was taken POW at Arnhem - I'm hoping someone can narrow down which crew he was with and which gun he was on

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14576047 Eric Joseph Beadle of 6th Airborne Signals, he was wounded 6/8/44

[48RMC]

You have a wonderful collection of paybooks. Do you have paybooks also from commando units like 4, 10 or 41,47,48 RMC?

[AB64]

I have 3 Commando books (maybe more that I don't know were Commando's - yet) - 2 of the 3 are in my Casualty paybook thread - the ones I have are Jack Needler who was with 6 Commando Intelligence section and wounded in Normandy, in 1946 he committed suicide in barracks by shooting himself, George Hulmes of 5 Commando who was killed in the landings in Madagascar & George Harrison who was with Layforce and captured on Crete

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7359124 Leslie Wyndham Griffiths, he was with the RAMC and qualified as a parachutist in November 1943