Double Hills Memorial (Op. Market Garden Glider RJ113 Casualties)

Name: Double Hills Memorial (Op. Market Garden Glider RJ113 Casualties)
Start: 2025-09-28T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Milton Cemetery Weston-Super-Mare

Schedule

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Milton Cemetery Weston-Super-Mare | Weston-super-mare, EN

Every last Sunday of September, the WsM Branch along with other uniformed and others affected, commemorate the loss of 23 personnel when Glider RJ113, en-route from Keevil to Arnhem, crashed in a field called ‘Double Hills’ near the village of Paulton in Somerset.
21 men of 9th Field Company Airborne Royal Engineers and 2 pilots of the Glider Pilot Regiment, were the first casualties of "Operation Market Garden", a plan to land an Allied Airborne force behind German lines and bring World War II to a close. They are all buried in the War Graves section of Milton Cemetery and we will again pay tribute to the fallen and anyone is welcome to attend to pay their respects.