Service Details
Name:
 RADCLIFF
Given Name:
 HERBERT CHARLES NOEL
Initials:
 H C N
Service No:
 232560
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
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Unit:
 10th Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-09-19
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Operation Market Garden, at Arnhem, in the vicinity of Wolheze Station
Additional
Information:
Son of John Radcliff and the Hon. Ivy Esmay Myee Barnewall Radcliff, of Cape Town, South Africa. He joined the army after finishing school and volunteered in 1943 for the Parachute Regiment with which he fought in Sicily in the same year and returned to the United Kingdom in November 1943. On the second day of Operation Market-Garden (18 September 1944), the battalion landed by parachute at Wolfheze where they immediately got into heavy fighting.
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 6. D. 1.

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