John Baskeyfield
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John Daniel Baskeyfield was a British Army soldier and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the Britis
John Baskeyfield memorial statue at Festival Heights in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Men of the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment advance toward Arnhem, towing a 6 pounder anti–tank gun with them, 18 September.
A 6 pounder anti–tank gun of the Border Regiment engages enemy armour on the western perimeter of Oosterbeek, on the same day as Baskeyfield's action.
The memorial statue at Festival Heights in Stoke-on-Trent
Robert Henry Cain
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Major Robert Henry Cain VC TD was a British Army officer who was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwe
John Baskeyfield
…Sheriff Thompson, Commanding Officer of the 1st Airlanding Light Artillery Regiment, who forcibly stopped many of the panicked troops and had Major Robert Cain form them into a defensive screen half a mile in front of his own 75 mm howitzers positions. The sector was designated "Thompson Force", but Thompson…
Robert Henry Cain at his VC investiture (1944)
Two Airborne soldiers demonstrate a P.I.A.T. antitank weapon.
A German Sturmhaubitze 42 at Arnhem.