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It is with great sadness and regret that I have to inform you of the passing of one of our Arnhem veterans and Honorary Life member, Frank Ashleigh. My thanks to Ramon de Heer for the photograph of Frank. May he Rest In Peace

It is with great sadness and regret that I have to inform you of the passing of one of our Arnhem veterans and Honorary Life member, Thomas Brewin. Thomas served with the Medium Machine Gun Platoon, S Company, 2nd Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment at Arnhem and was taken prisoner on the banks of the…

I regret to inform you of the passing of one our Arnhem veterans and Honorary Life members, Lech Ziolowski. Lech served with HQ Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion, 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade. He dropped at Driel on 21st September 1944 having flown from Spanhoe airfield in Lincolnshire with the 309th Troop Carrier Squadron. We will…

It is with great sadness and regret that we have to inform you of the passing of one of our Arnhem veterans and Honorary Life Member, John Crosson, who passed away on 6th December. John served with 6 Platoon, B Company, 7th (Galloway) Battalion, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers and returned across the Rhine at…

The Dutch do us proud in the PARAS10 Arnhem Virtual In the first week of October 13 Dutch runners completed the 10-mile Arnhem Virtual run under the banner of the Arnhem Fellowship to help raise funds for Support Our Paras (The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity).  Our member, Matthijs Somford, organised them to run…

Some more sad news I’m afraid. The previous Arnhem Fellowship President (2013 to 2017), Major-General Keith Spacie, passed away on 16th October. From Paradata: Maj Gen Keith Spacie CB OBE was born in 1935 and commissioned into the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment in July 1955, awarded an MID in1958 and transferred into 3 PARA in 1960. Among…

It is with great sadness and regret that I have to inform you of the passing of Carolyn Brodie. Carolyn was our membership secretary and the daughter of our founding member, Major Tony Hibbert. Many of you have known her for many more years than I have and I’m sure you will be as equally…

It is with great sadness and regret that we have to inform you of the passing of one of our Arnhem veterans and Honorary Life Member, John Bosley, on Monday 3rd October. On 18th September 1944 John jumped onto Ginkel Heath with the second lift as part of the 11th Parachute Battalion, Battalion HQ Intelligence…

It is with great sadness and regret that we must advise you of the passing of one of our Honorary Life members, Bert Turner, 196 Squadron, RAF. Bert passed away on the evening of 4th August. Bert was a regular attendee of the September commemorations travelling with a group of ex-servicemen from Staffordshire. He always…

The Arnhem Fellowship was represented at the 80th Anniversary event of the formation of the Parachute Regiment at Merville Barracks, Colchester. Visitors to the stand included two Arnhem veterans and Honorary Life members of the Arnhem Fellowship. John Humphreys OBE DL, now a Chelsea Pensioner, who served with the 1st Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers and…