Lieutenant William A B Temple

Lieutenant William Anthony Binger Temple was the son of Anthony and Gwendoline Marion Temple, and husband of Patricia Muriel Temple, of Woodcote. He was born in 1915 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada and educated at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. He immigrated on 22 July 1936 to Laredo, Webb, TX, after spending time in in Mexico from in late 1935 to mid-1936 as an agriculture student.

Lt Temple began service with Worcester Regiment, and was later attached to 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion, as No 1 Platoon Commander, A Company. At the start of the Normandy campaign, the Battalion completed their drop onto the DZ at Ranville by 01:00 hours on 6 June 1944, but went into action with most company's at half-strength due to parachute sticks being dropped in the wrong location - one stick did not arrive at all. By 03:25 the Battalion had occupied its objectives at Le Port and Benouville and held it against various counter-attacks with "A" and "B" Coys being heavily engaged.
 
Lieutenant Temple was badly wounded in the first few hours after landing in France and later died of his wounds in the UK. He died on 16 June 1944. aged 29 years old. He is now buried at St Peter and St Paul Churchyard, Checkendon, Oxfordshire.