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

228396 Captain John Shewell Douglas

1921 - 21 Sep 1944
7888782 Sergeant Michael Joseph Elliott MM

1919 - 18 Sep 1944
14632603 Private George Stewart Foulis

- 21 Sep 1944
10632595 Private Peter Gathard

- 01 Oct 1944
6924393 Private Norman Gent

1924 - 18 Sep 1944
14204133 Private William Thomas Giddings

1923 - 17 Feb 1945
251353 Lieutenant Robert Dickson Glover

1919 - 19 Sep 1944
14342153 Private Harold Godwin

1923 - 25 Sep 1944
5725693 Private Mathew Wyndham Beer Goldsworthy

1918 - 19 Sep 1944
5050423 Lance Corporal Ronald William Griffin

1919 - 25 Sep 1944



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.