Albert W Livesey | ParaData

Albert William Livesey was the son of Albert William and Kate Livesey, of Hullbridge, Essex.

Corporal Livesey successfully completed his parachute training at RAF Ringway on the 16 March 1944. It was noted that he was "Well up to standard, good worker."

Cpl Livesey was posted to the Airbore Forces Holding Unit before being transferred to serve with 8th (Midland) Parachute Battalion.

He was killed on 12 April 1945, aged 23 years old and is now buried in Hanover War Cemetery, Germany.

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Updated by Wendy George

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8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion (Corporal)

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Advance to the Baltic

The airborne soldiers were well suited to exploit the fluid situation that occurred following the collapse of the Rhine barrier defence. Short fierce actions were fought from the tanks of the 4th Tank Battalion of the Grenadier Guards and whatever transport could be purloined.

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Ardennes

After the Allied landings in Normandy and subsequent advance through France and Belgium, the German Army had succeeded in stalling the Allied offensive along their line of defence at the German border - the ‘Siegfried Line’.

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Normandy (Operation Overlord)

Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe commonly known as D-Day, saw the 6th Airborne Division for the first time.

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Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)

By late January 1945, the Germans' Ardennes offensive was finally defeated. It had been a costly episode for both sides, but more so for the Germans, who now had to retreat across the Rhine greatly weakened and "in no condition to hold fast even in these positions".

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Headstone of Cpl A W Livesey, Hanover War Cemetery, Hanover, Germany, August 2011.

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Portraits of Albert Livesey and Gaston Le Baron, c.1944

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View of Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

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Eileen Chandler at the grave of her brother, Albert W Livesey, Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

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View of the gravestone of Albert William Livesey, Hanover War Cemetery, Germany

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Six men of The 8th (Midland) Parachute Battalion, early 1944.

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Group photo of a searchlight team, Suffolk, January 1940

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Group photo of Bert Livesey with pals at Gunsite Castle Hill, Ipswich, 1943

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Portrait of Albert Livesey, Ipswich, 1941

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Corporal Albert W Livesey

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12 Apr 1945

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