The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

Kenneth Morrison · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 12:29 pm Post subject:

1939 -1945

SGT. JAMES CORRY, ADDERSTONSHIELS.
James Corry – age 24 – Sergeant (3192269) “D” Company, No.16 Platoon, 7th (Airborne) Battalion (Galloway) King's Own Scottish Borderers.
James was employed at Minto Home Farm when he enlisted in 1939.
Born 1919 in Canonbie, Dumfriesshire. Son of George and Mary (Bell) Corry of Adderstonshiels, Hawick.
Missing in Action on 19 September 1944 and named on the Groesbeek Memorial, Netherlands.

On the morning of 17 September 1944 the first of over 50 Horsa Gliders carrying troops of the 7th (Airborne) Battalion, KOSB, 1st Airlanding Brigade, 1st Airborne Division, took off from RAF Down Apney in Gloucestershire and from the nearby RAF Blakehill Farm in Wiltshire.
In the early afternoon they began to put down in their designated Landing Zone at Arnhem in the Netherlands. Their task was to clear any enemy from the area and then to defend the Drop Zones for 4 Parachute Brigade, due to arrive the following day.
They continued in their role of defending an ever decreasing perimeter in the area of Oosterbeek until the night of 25/26 September when the survivors of the battalion withdrew across the Rhine.
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Ken