Thomas Edward Stanley

Private Thomas Stanley from Cheshire Name Thomas E. Stanley Army Number: 3606793 Age: 21 Rank: Pte. Function: Function unknown Platoon-Troop-Flight: Platoon-Troop-Flight unknown Company-Squadron: C Company Unit-Group: 1st Airlanding Brigade 1st Airborne Battalion Division-Transport-Command: 1st Airborne Division Regiment: Border Regiment Nationality: British Died when: 22-9-1944 Died where: Unknown where person has died Spot: Unknown where person has died Map reference: Map reference not available yet Grave number: Grave number unknown, or person has no gravestone Burial location: No known grave Personal Notes: No personal notes available The bodies of Corp Thomas Edgar from Carlisle and Ln Corp Raymond Halliday from Stockton on Tees have also been found Their names were later added to the list of men with no known grave at the Grossbeek Memorial in Holland. Earlier this year Dutch historians dedicated to identifying unmarked war graves were confident they had found the final resting places of the six men after trawling through exhumation reports of 1945. The reports indicated that after Arnhem was liberated the bodies of the men were exhumed and buried in unidentified graves at the military cemetery at Oosterbeek. They presented files of evidence to the MoD's Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre which studied and researched the British archives before confirming positive identification on all six.The six servicemen were infantry soldiers who arrived in Arnhem in gliders and had the job of securing landing sites for further drops and then holding part of the village of Oosterbeek which sits in the Rhine River. Lance Corporal Raymond Halliday, Cpl Jack Carr, Cpl Thomas Edgar, Private Thomas Stanley, Pte Harry Vasey and Pte George Wilson, all of the Border Regiment, were killed within four days of each other. They were hastily buried in unmarked graves, either by the entrenched British or the Germans after they re-took the ground following the battle. Sluiten