Major-General Robert Elliot "Roy" Urquhart, was a British Army officer who saw service during the Second World War and Malayan Emergency. He became prominent for his role as General Officer Commanding
Urquhart in September 1945
Major-General Roy Urquhart standing outside his headquarters during Operation Market Garden, September 1944
Group photograph of senior officers of the 1st Airborne Division, sometime in 1944. Sat in the centre of the front row is the division's GOC, Major-General Roy Urquhart.
Crown Prince Olav in battle-dress addressing the welcoming crowd on the quayside at Oslo following his journey home on a British destroyer, accompanied by Major-General R. E. Urquhart, GOC 1st Airborne Division.
Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War, fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a salient span
Roy Urquhart
…Commanding the 1st Airborne Division, which fought with great distinction, although suffering very severe casualties, in the Battle of Arnhem during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. Roy Urquhart was born in Shepperton, Middlesex, England, on 28 November 1901, and was the son of a Scottish doctor. He was educated…
Paratroopers of the First Allied Airborne Army descending over the Netherlands
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery
Infantry of 50th (Northumbrian) Division moving up past a knocked-out German 88mm gun near 'Joe's Bridge' over the Meuse-Escaut Canal in Belgium, 16 September 1944