Notable Escapees
Although many men had failed to return after the Battle of Arnhem, many were able to escape in Operation Pegasus or with the aid of the resistance over the winter. They included senior ranks:
- Brigadier Gerald Lathbury, CO 1st Parachute Brigade (Operation Pegasus).
- Brigadier John Hackett, CO 4th Parachute Brigade (February 1945).
- Colonel Graeme Warrack, Senior medical officer, 1 Airborne Division (February 1945).
- Lieutenant Colonel David Dobie, CO 1 Battalion, Parachute Regiment (in advance of Operation Pegasus).
- Lieutenant Colonel Martin Herford, 163 RAMC (October 1944).
- Major Allison Digby Tatham-Warter, OC A Company, 2 Battalion, Parachute Regiment (Operation Pegasus).
- Major Anthony Deane-Drummond, 2IC Divisional Signals (Operation Pegasus).
- Major Tony Hibbert, Brigade Major 1st Parachute Brigade (Operation Pegasus).
- Captain Alexander Lipmann Kessel, 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance (February 1945).
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