PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Ritson, Ernest Vivian "Teddy"
Date of birth: Unknown (Stockport/Greater Manchester, England)
Date of death:  September 20th, 1944 (Arnhem/Gelderland, Netherlands)
Buried on:  Commonwealth War Cemetery Arnhem Oosterbeek
Plot: 6.  Row: D.  Grave: 18.
Nationality:  British
     
MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES
Rank: Major
Unit: Second-in-Command, Battalion Headquarters, 156th Parachute Battalion, 4th Parachute Brigade, 1st Airborne Division, British Army
Awarded for: Operation Market Garden
Action: For gallantry in action in September 1944 in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
Details: Posthumously awarded.
 
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Information source(s):   - O'REILLY, J., From Delhi to Arnhem, Thoroton Publishing Limited, Thoroton, Nottinghamshire, Great Britain, 2009.
- The Pegasus Archive - The Battle of Arnhem Archive
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