For several days at the height of the fighting at Arnhem in the autumn of 1944, Sergeant Frank Ashleigh hid in the organ loft of a church and took turns with th
Sergeant Frank Ashleigh took part in the largest airborne assault in history in September 1944. After being captured, he spent time in Stalag Luft III, made famous by the Great Escape of 1944.
Sergeant Frank Ashleigh was a 19-year-old glider pilot in Operation Market Garden in September 1944, which failed to capture Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland