PARAS Anson, Patrick Anchitel Richmond

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Anson ​

• FORENAME

Patrick Anchitel Richmond ​

• UNIT

10 Bn (Middlesex Regiment,attached) ​

• RANK

Major ​

• NUMBER

62643 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

29th September 1944 ​

• AGE

30 ​

• GRAVESITE

Beckingen War Cemetery,Germany 4.E.12 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 17.03.1914, Middlesex​

son of Henry Percy Richmond and Lilian Mary Anson, Alderney, Channel Islands​

father KIA 25.5.1915 in Belgium as Captain Middlesex Regiment​

educated Royal Military College, Sandhurst​

02.1934 commissioned Middlesex Regiment​

01.1942 joined Parachute Regiment​

02.1942 Parachute training course 8, (10-24 February)​

01.1943 joined 10th Parachute Battalion in Kabrit​

commanding officer of A Company, 10th Bara Bn on Operation Market Garden​

18.09.1944 Dakota shot down near Dodwaard​

24/25.09.1944 crossed Rhine to Arnhem​

WIA and taken POW. Died of wounds at Stalag XIB, Fallingbostel​

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