Driver John Crane

Army No.

 At Arnhem: C Troop, No.2 Gun

Back Across the Rhine during Operation Berlin

 

Born: 18-09-1919, Quadring, Spalding, Lincolnshire

Passed Away: 0012-1990, Peterborough



He flew in with Glider 345, Glider pilots, Staff Sergeant Reginald Robert Baker and Sergeant Len D. West, of 19 Flight, B Squadron, according to the crew members, the glider made a premature landing, at Manston and flew over the next day. Ending up in front of the Hartenstein Hotel.



Loadmanifest, via R. De Heer (National Archives, Kew)