Lest we forget

Pathfinder Parachute Group UK

Lest we forget

	Wally Parr, who has died aged 83, took part in the glider-borne assault which captured Pegasus Bridge			Poul Hansen Code name "Jelly" Special Operations Executives (SOE) and was trained in the United Kingdom.

	CHATEAU JOBERT, DSO (aka CONAN) CO of 3 SAS founder of the French Jump school in Pau			General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley

	Robert Gilbert "Rocky" Frie, born February 12, 1954, in San Pedro, California, and died June 25, 2006			Staff Sergeant Geoff Barkway was the pilot of one of the six Horsa gliders, which delivered Major Howard's Coup de Main Force to Caen Canal in Normandy on DDay

	Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway DSO Commander of airborne forces who on D-Day captured a German battery at Merville, which threatened the Sword Beach landings.			Captain Piers St Aubyn. was one of only three officers of 156 Parachute Battalion to emerge unscathed from the battle of Arnhem.

	Sgt Sid Capon was one of the first to reach the guns of the Merville battery in Normandy on D-Day.			Arthur Hendy, Arnhem Veteran, Royal British legion Spalding, Lincolnshire Army Cadet force, Pathfinder Parachute Group UK , An account of his time during the battle at Arnhem bridge

	Stan Jeavons 26-year-old Lieutenant First officer to land by parachute in France.

Anthony Farrar-Hockley

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Operation. Warning orders

Robert Gilbert

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