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250426 Pte. Stanley Aylward British Army 156th Parachute Battalion Parachute Regiment from:5 Swanage Ave., Manchester My Grandad, Stanley Aylward, was a Private in Support Company, 156th Parachute Battalion. Born in 1921, he enlisted upon or shortly before the outbreak of war in September 1939, joining The Queen's Royal (West Surrey) Regiment. Whilst based in the Middle East he volunteered for the Airborne Forces and was posted to the 156th Battalion, completing parachute course K25 at Ramat David, Palestine, in late 1942. It is believed that he took part in the 1st Airborne Division's operations in Italy in September 1943. During Operation Market Garden in September 1944, he took off in a C-47 from Saltby with the Second Lift on Monday 18th, and jumped over DZ-Y. He made a successful landing but came under fire from the Germans on the drop zone and was shot in the knee. Stan was later discovered by medics, covered by his parachute in a shell-hole, and was duly brought to a field hospital but was taken prisoner when it was overrun. After his release, he joined the 8th Parachute Battalion and may have served with them in Palestine before being discharged on either the 15th June or 2nd September 1946. A member of the 156th Parachute Battalion Old Comrades Association and the Parachute Regimental Association, Stanley Aylward passed away in 1996 and is buried in London. Moshe Ben Israel Add to this record.  Related Content: Royal West Surrey (Queens) Regiment 156th Parachute Battalion, Parachute Regiment 1st Airborne Division Italian Campaign RAF Saltby Operation Market Garden Can you help us to add to our records? Add a record to our website. The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them Did you or your relatives live through the Second World War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial? Were you or your relative evacuated? Did an air raid affect your area? If so please let us know. Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice. Contact us. Celebrate your own Family History Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Secomd World War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc. Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.

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