This roll is in two parts: the men of the 11th Parachute Battalion who were killed during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, and a smaller number who died in training or before deployment. Both groups are listed below.

Killed at the Battle of Arnhem

4749730 Private Bernard Burwell Airey

1919 - 21 Sep 1944
6087644 Lance Corporal Frederick Frank Allen

1921 - 01 Nov 1944
3606646 Private Gilbert Anderson

1923 - 25 Sep 1944
5883315 WOII George Wilson Ashdown MM

1914 - 20 Sep 1944
4392691 Sergeant Arnold Ashworth

1917 - 18 Sep 1944
818289 Sergeant John Robert Baker

1912 - 21 Sep 1944
1727369 Private James William Barlow

1920 - 18 Sep 1944
4746018 Sergeant Bernard William Bartholomew

1915 - 19 Sep 1944
4460008 Private John Arthur Barton

1919 - 18 Sep 1944
1432862 Corporal Thomas Bedford

1922 - 18 Sep 1944





Died in Training or Before the Battle

These men died in Palestine in 1943 or in the United Kingdom in early 1944, while the Battalion was still training — before it deployed to Arnhem.

4389597 Private George William Burbage

1918 - 1943
6287277 Corporal Ronald Herbert Crossley

- 1943
4976906 Private Robert Henry Hales

- 1944
T/72751 Driver Sidney Hobson

- 1943
3384400 Private William Henry Hopkinson

1914 - 1944
3130742 Private John William Lowe

1921 - 1944
4130767 Private Frederick Howard Squire

1920 - 1944
53765 Lieutenant Colonel Richard Michael Collette Thomas

1912 - 1944
7886311 Lance Corporal Archibold Cowan Whyte

1915 - 1943
Thanks to R.P. “Bob” Hilton; Diana Andrews; Allan Brown; Andrew Blacklock; Jon Baker; John Howes; Graham Francis; Bob Gerritsen; Darren Wielink; Maarten Lenssen; Judith Minkman; Philip Reinders; Hans den Brok; many 11th Battalion veterans; family, next of kin and friends; staff of the Airborne Museum Hartenstein Oosterbeek; Airborne Assault Museum Duxford; and Gerrit Pijpers OBE without whom this website would not have been possible.