In Memory Of

AUSTIN, AMBROSE THEODORE WENTWORTH

Service Details
Age:
 20
Date of Birth:
 1924-02-29
Service No:
 277469
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Regiment:
 The Parachute Regiment, A.A.C.
Former Regiment:
 formerly Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Date of Death:
 1944-06-06
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, missing during D-Day landings
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 18, Column 2.
Cemetery:
 BAYEUX MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Calvados
Country:
 France
Additional Information
Son of the Revd. Wentworth Murray Austin and Celia Mary Austin, of Honiton, Devon. Born Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Educated Hordle House School and Sherbourne School, and later attended Oxford University. He enlisted into the Army and was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 22 May 1943. In 1944, Lieutenant Austin was transferred to the Anti-Tank Platoon, HQ Company, 12th (Green Howards) Parachute Battalion. During the Normandy Airborne landings on D-Day, during Operation Overlord, it was the job of the 12th Battalion to capture the village of Ranville. On 6 June 1944, troops landed by glider and parachuted into the area around Ranville, some missing the drop zones and coming up against German patrols. Lt Austin was reported as missing in the Battalion war diary soon after the drop, along with three other officers, and 100 other ranks. Commemorated on Bathurst St. John's Church Memorial