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5954421 Sergeant Daniel Joseph Behan

Killed/died of wounds/other causes as the result of operation ‘Market’
Photograph of Hero Killed In Action


Born on: 29 Jun 1916
Died on: 13 Nov 1944
Died at:
Aged: 32
Buried at: First buried in the General Cemetery ‘Heidehof’, now Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 18.C.20.

Rest in Peace Sergeant Behan:
11th Bn. Parachute Regt., A.A.C.
He died of wounds in hospital at Apeldoorn


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.