Arnhem... again!

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  1. Jamie Holdbridge-Stuart

    Jamie Holdbridge-Stuart Senior Member

    I'm trying to find a bit of information about Stan Whittaker who served in the Parachute Regiment and was taken prisoner at Arnhem... that's all I know about him, and would like to find out, at least, which Battalion he served with?
     
  2. horsapassenger

    horsapassenger Senior Member

    Pte Stanley James Whittaker served with 4 Para Bde HQ
     
  3. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Would this be him:

    S J Whittaker in the UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
    Name: S J Whittaker
    Rank: Private
    Army Number: 14618322
    Regiment: Army Air Corps
    Record Office: Army Air Corps and Army Catering Corps Record Office, Drill Hall, East Claremont St., Edinburgh 9
    Record Office Number: 45

    TD
     
  4. Jamie Holdbridge-Stuart

    Jamie Holdbridge-Stuart Senior Member

    Could well be.
    Herself bought me a book for 20p from a charity shop, titled 'My War - Prisoner of War'. Private Whittaker is one of the blokes mentioned, frustratingly there are no details, other than a piccy showing him in a Beret with the Parachute Regiment cap badge, and....

    The attack came in on a group of us. Luckily all the firing missed me. We just put our hands up. There was nothing else to do.

    I'd hazard a guess at 11th Battalion? Is there a way of finding out which Battalion he may have served in?
     
  5. horsapassenger

    horsapassenger Senior Member

    On his POW Liberation Questionnaire he put his unit as 4th Parachute Brigade HQ. I don't think he could have been any more explicit. He says that he was captured on the 20th. The only other S Whittaker at Arnhem was Solomon Whittaker from the South Staffords - he wouldn't have a Para cap badge.
     

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  6. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    You mean this guy

    Name: S Whittaker
    Rank: Private
    Army Number: 4914442
    Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment
    POW Number: 92098
    Camp Type: Stalag
    Camp Number: XII-A
    Camp Location: Limburg, Baden-Württemberg
    Record Office: Infantry Record Office, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
    Record Office Number: 19

    TD
     
  7. horsapassenger

    horsapassenger Senior Member

    TD

    That's him - he was in A Coy South Staffords but they wore their own cap badge not the Parachute Regiment Cap Badge. He was captured on the 26th.
     
  8. Jamie Holdbridge-Stuart

    Jamie Holdbridge-Stuart Senior Member

    The book's photograph shows him wearing a Parachute Regiment cap badge, so I'd hazard the 4th Parachute Brigade is the chap I'm after?
     

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