10th Battalion Parachute Regiment
World War II
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ContributeThree stone slabs. On one side, the tablets have carvings: Paratroopers outside their HQ at Burrough Court (left), Paratroopers with Somerby church in the background (centre), Paratrooper on bicycle (right). On the other side, the centre tablet has an inscription, the flanking tablets list the Parachute Regiment war dead from World War II.
Location
Burrough Court, Twyford Road, Burrough on the Hill - Somerby
Grid Reference: SK7464710101
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Inscription Reads
This commemorative stone is dedicated to the memory of the 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment.
During 1943-44, the Battalion was based in the nearby villages of Somerby, Burrough on the Hill and Thorpe Satchville.
582 men from the Battalion parachuted into occupied Holland on 18th September 1944 as part of Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Arnhem. Few returned.
They fought on, they fought on...
With an enemy growing ever stronger, pressing them on all sides but one - and that a wide, swiftly flowing river - they fought on.
Without sleep, presently without food or water, at the end almost without ammunition, they fought on.
When no hope of victory remained, when all prospect of survival had vanished, when death alone could give them ease, they fought on.
...they performed a feat of arms which will be remembered and recounted as long as the virtues of courage and resolution have power to move the hearts of men.
Now these things befell at Arnhem.
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM