Arnhem Their Final Battle (nieuw)

The 11th Parachute Battalion 1943-1944. Bij Gerrit Pijpers & David Truesdale, 2012

'To the officers and men who served in
the 11th Battalion The Parachute Regiment
during the Second World War and in memory of those
who lost their lives in the service of their country'

The 11th Parachute Battalion was officially formed on 4 March 1943 at Kabrit in Egypt. In September 1944 the Battalion took part in Operation Market Garden, On 18 September they jumped over Ginkel Heath as part of 4 Parachute Brigade, together with its sister parachute battalions the 10th and 156. After eight days of heavy fighting the remnants of the 11th Battalion and those of the 1st British Airborne Division crossed the River Rhine into safety of Allied lines. This is their story.