Lance Corporal Leslie "Sidney" Wright

Army Number: 5382523?

Defence Platoon, 1st Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Regiment

At Arnhem: Body Guard, General Urquhart

Back across the river Rhine during Operation Berlin

 

Born: 16-08-1923, Banbury

Passed Away: 00-02-2003



Flew in with General Urquhart in Glider Chalk 431, Glider Pilots, Lieutenant Colonel Iain Arthur Murray and Lieutenant J.B. Bottomley of 1st Wing Headquarters, Glider Pilot Regiment.



Photo Iain Murray (IWM H40982) Glider raid Report and  photos Bottomley via R de Heer (National Archives, Kew)