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NAME:                      Champion, Eric Bruce
RANK:                      Private
UNIT:                      The Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps
BATTALION ETC:             3rd Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         5498767
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    19th September 1944 Arnhem
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Groesbeek Memorial, Gelderland, Netherlands
                           (Thought to have been buried by Dutch Red Cross in the grounds of the St Elizabeth’s Hospital, Arnhem)
OTHER INFORMATION:         Born 1918 at Salisbury, Wilts.
                           Of Belt Cottage, Somerley, Ringwood, Hants (Probate)
                           Son of Henry Frederick & Margaret Lothian Rutherford Champion