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Major THOMAS EVERARD MONTGOMERY

Service Number: 160794
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

1st (Airborne) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 November 1944

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ARNHEM OOSTERBEEK WAR CEMETERY

Sp. Mem. (25. C. 12.)

Netherlands

Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery - special memorial headstone to Major Thomas Everard Montgomery, Border Regiment, 1st (Airborne) Bn., who died as a prisoner of war and was buried at the time in Lingen Cemetery, Germany, but whose grave is now lost.

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Alexander and Gladys Montgomery; husband of Lavender Montgomery, of Kilshannig, Co. Cork, Irish Republic. Buried at the time in Lingen Cemetery, Germany, but whose grave is now lost.
  • Personal Inscription DIED PRISONER OF WAR AND BURIED AT THE TIME IN LINGEN CEMETERY BUT WHOSE GRAVE IS NOW LOST "TUI" ALTHOUGH YOU LIE SO FAR AWAY YOU WILL ALWAYS BE CLOSE TO OUR HEARTS

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