11th parachute battalionの例文

• In October 1947 Baker became Honorary Colonel of 11th Parachute Battalion ( Middlesex ).
• Lonsdale later commanded an almagated force of the 3rd and 11th Parachute battalions and saw service in Bath.
• The KOSB, until then responsible for defending the landing ground, were attached to 4th Parachute Brigade to replace the 11th Parachute Battalion.
• To the east of the village, the 1st, 3rd and 11th Parachute Battalions and the 2nd South Staffordshires were organised into a defensive position.
• Later that year, the division was deployed to Tunisia for operations in the 11th Parachute Battalions, which had been raised from troops based in Egypt and Palestine.
• The 11th Parachute Battalion was raised in 1st Airborne Division the battalion was still in training when the rest of the brigade left to join the division for the Allied invasion of Italy.
• In the southeast, Lonsdale Force ( the remnants of the 1st, 3rd, and 11th Parachute Battalions and 2nd South Staffordshires ) repulsed a big attack aided by the fire of the divisional light artillery.
• The advance began on a narrow front with the 1st Parachute Battalion leading, supported by remnants of the 3rd Parachute Battalion, with the 2nd South Staffordshires on the left flank and the 11th Parachute Battalion following behind.
• Another attempt to reach the bridge began at 03 : 45 on the third day, 19 September when the 1st and 3rd Battalions were joined by the 11th Parachute Battalion and the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment.
• By dawn, under intense fire from the German defenders, the attack had faltered whereupon the 11th Parachute Battalion, until then held in reserve, was ordered to carry out a left flanking assault on the German line.
• With the arrival of the South Staffords and 11th Parachute battalion at the 1st and 3rd Parachute Battalion's positions west of Arnhem, the British hoped to have sufficient troops to break through to Frost's position at the bridge.
• On the ground, the Allied force consisted of the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, a company from 11th Parachute battalion of 1st Airborne Division, a company of men from the Special Boat Service ( SBS ) and Royal Air Force ( RAF ) personnel under the command of Lt . Col . L . R . F . Kenyon.