6209855 Pte John Carmody of the 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, died in the fighting in Holland on the 24th September 1944. Allied forces had entered the Netherlands twelve days earlier and so John Carmody was an early casualty of this particular campaign. He was born in Eire and was living in London when he enlisted.
John Carmody was 26 years old when he died. He is buried in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
2 comments:
This was my Grandfather.
May he Rest in Peace
John was a good friend of my Grandparents Joe and Doris Heath from Paddington My Mum June 85 now remembers him well, he was known as little John to them, she told me he was killed at the second drop at Arnhem and from his friends was told he was dead before he had hit the ground he was glider bourne.
From a bit of research he would have landed in the middle of 2 SS divisions re-fitting from a hammering in Russia, the units the 9th SS Hoenstaffen and 10th SS Frundsburg had been re-equipped with tanks and quadrupal 20mm flack cannons on halftrack running gear and slaughtered many soldiers on the second drop at Arnhem.
Ian Peachey from Wokingham.
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