On Saturday May 19 I will be running 100km in the Australian Blue Mountains. I am dedicating this fundraising effort to my father Basil Cox, who served with 10 Para during Operation Market Garden.

 

Friends of the Tenth

We are committed to perpetuating the memory of 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment who lived in Somerby, Leicestershire during WW2. We aim to build a commemorative sculpture. In September 1944, 582 men of the Battalion left for the Battle of Arnhem, two weeks later only 36 returned to the village