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

14641813 Private Herbert Nixon

1924 - 20 Sep 1944
7043403 Lance Corporal Joseph O’Neill

- 23 Sep 1944
6089728 Private James Edward O’Dell

1920 - 21 Sep 1944
14401728 Private Cecil Frank Arthur Page

1924 - 18 Sep 1944
314180 2nd Lieutenant Richard de Courcy Peele

1923 - 22 Sep 1944
5885135 Sergeant Eric Herbert Pennington

- 19 Sep 1944
5107147 Private Ernest Pettitt

1916 - 19 Sep 1944
1539790 Private Charles Richard Pye

1918 - 31 Dec 1944
2937117 Private Bernard Rehill

1913 - 25 Sep 1944
14646546 Private Kenneth Rhymes

1924 - 21 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.