In Memory Of

RADCLIFF, HERBERT CHARLES NOEL

Service Details
Age:
 21
Date of Birth:
 -0001-11-30
Service No:
 232560
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 10th Bn.
Regiment:
 The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
Date of Death:
 1944-09-19
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Operation Market Garden, at Arnhem, in the vicinity of Wolheze Station
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 6. D. 1.
Cemetery:
 ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Netherlands
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.