AIRBORNE UNIT LOSSES|ARNHEM
ABOVE
A XXX Corps
Sherman rolls
by a knocked
out 8.8cm gun.
Such guns could
considerably hold
up the advance.
RICHARD DOHERTYBELOW
A 75mm Pack
Howitzer of 'D'
Troop, 1st Airlanding
Light Regiment dug
in the Oosterbeek
pocket, September
20, 1944.
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HQ/Liaison/Defence Platoon 104 5 15 Most
1 st Battalion 354 11 4 Most
2 nd Battalion 351 11 7 Most
3 rd Battalion 374 30 39 Most
Anti-Tank Battery 132 20 29 Most
Engineer Company 133 2 1 Most
Signals Company 93 7/8 10 Most
Medical Company 90 2 7 Most
Transport and Supply Company 43 8 8 Most
Light Artillery Battery 6 0 0 Unk
APPROXIMATE TOTALS
Men in: Killed: Missing/Captured: Evacuated/Evaded:All units 11,923 1,500 6,492+ 2,364+
Data courtesy of the Market Garden Foundation: http://www.marketgarden.comrest and busied himself trying to thank
all those who aided his embattled
formation, before having to attend a
series of press conferences – as he was
now a ‘famous’ man. Debriefings with
various senior officers also followed,
as did audiences with the Chief of the
Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke,
King George VI and the exiled Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.
The tables in this feature details,
where possible, the huge casualties to
1st Airborne and its attached units.The burden of the loss of so many of
his men weighed heavily on Urquhart,
though in his official report, he still
embraced the esprits-de-corps and
gutsy go-get-’em attitude synonymous
with British airborne forces, writing:
“The losses were heavy but all ranks
appreciate that the risks involved were
reasonable. There is no doubt that all
would willingly undertake another
operation under similar conditions
in the future.”
“We have no regrets.”
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