14426726 Private Edward Leonard James
Killed/died of wounds/other causes as the result of
operation ‘Market’
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Born on:
Died on: 18 Sep 1944
Died at: Battle of Arnhem
Aged: 18
Buried at: Buried in Wageningen
General Cemetery 2-791.
Rest in Peace Private James:
11th Bn. Parachute Regt., A.A.C.
Son of Sidney Harold James and Florence Ethel James, of Aldershot, Hampshire. He was killed aboard Dakota 42-100896.
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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.