Arnhem hero dies 老年の 98: パラシュート（で降下する） 退役軍人 was 発射 and 逮捕（する）d in the 1944 戦う／戦い then escaped 刑務所，拘置所 （軍の）野営地，陣営, discovered secret German 武器s 実験（する） and 生き残るd to jump again three years ago

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A hero of the 戦う／戦い of Arnhem who was 発射 and 逮捕（する）d, only to escape a 囚人 of war （軍の）野営地，陣営 and discover a secret German 武器s 実験（する） has died at the age of 98.

Paratrooper John Jeffries died in Richmond, North Yorkshire, on August 30, after a remarkable life that saw him serve his country in?North Africa, Syria, パレスチナ, Italy?and the Netherlands.?

Mr Jeffries was born in Warrington, Lancashire in 1922, but grew up in an orphanage after both of his parents died.

In 1941, he joined the 王室の Signals, but 調印するd up for the パラシュート（で降下する） 連隊 after 審理，公聴会 about its 形式.?

He trained in Cairo and in 1994 was dropped into the Netherlands at the 戦う／戦い of Arnhem,? part of 操作／手術 Market Garden.

He was 逮捕（する）d just a short while after trying to land, as a German 狙撃者 発射 home in the buttocks during 降下／家系.?

It was then his remarkable time in the 軍の began, managing to escape, discover a 最高の，を越す secret German 実験, only to be 逮捕（する）d again and nearly killed by ロシアの women.?

戦う／戦い of Arnhem paratrooper 退役軍人 John Jeffries died on August 30 at the age of 98. The 戦時 hero was 逮捕（する）d すぐに after dropping into the 戦う／戦い, but would quickly discover a secret German 武器 実験

Before he died he managed to carry out one final jump - three years ago at the age of 95.?

He also had the chance to 会合，会う Prince Charles. They 株d a conversation?about which was the scariest way to jump and decided?it was from a hot 空気／公表する balloon because the atmosphere was so still.?

Mr Jeffries' 軍の service began in the 王室の Signals, serving in Italy, North Africa, Syria and パレスチナ.

He later joined the パラシュート（で降下する） 連隊, trained in Cairo and was dropped behind enemy lines at the 戦う／戦い of Arnhem on September 18, 1944.

It was the second day of 操作／手術 Market Garden - which saw 35,000 parachutists and glider 操縦するs 減少（する） into the Netherlands with 計画（する）s to 逮捕（する） 橋（渡しをする）s and create a new 大勝する into Nazi Germany.??

While descending into 戦う／戦い, he was 発射 in the buttock and landed on Ginkel ヒース／荒れ地.

Mr Jeffries, who started the Second World War as part of the 王室の Signals, served in Italy, North Africa, パレスチナ, Syria and the Netherlands

Mr Jeffries managed to escape a 囚人 of war （軍の）野営地，陣営 after 回復するing his strength by eatnig grass and 少しのd on 最高の，を越す of a diet of cabbage or potato soup

His 激しい wireless 始める，決める landed on his ankle, leaving him unable to to move. As 厚い smoke 燃やすd around him, it looked as though his war was over.??

Speaking last year, Mr Jeffries told the Daily 記録，記録的な／記録する: 'I couldn't get up. I had to lay there almost three ４半期/4分の1s of an hour before medics （機の）カム to 選ぶ me up.

'I got 発射 coming 負かす／撃墜する as I （機の）カム out the 計画（する）.

'I was bleeding やめる profusely.'

However, the 退役軍人's life was 報道によれば saved by three Dutch girls who ran over to him and asked for his パラシュート（で降下する） to make dresses.?

To his horror he then realised that he still had the secret codebook, printed on magnesium paper, that had been 問題／発行するd to wireless 操作者s.

Behind the 支援するs of his captors, he 説得するd a smoking 兵士 to put his lit cigarette to the magnesium paper, which went up with a bang.

After four days on the 床に打ち倒す of a filthy cattle トラックで運ぶ without food or water, and with 負傷させるd men dying around him, he went by train to Stalag XI-B in Lower Saxony.

In 2015 John Jeffries was able to carry out one last jump from an 航空機 - at the age of 95?

To his 救済, he was given 医療の attention and 刑務所，拘置所 着せる／賦与するing - he was still wearing the 血-encrusted uniform he'd been 発射 負かす／撃墜する in.

The 刑務所，拘置所 doctor ripped out the pad which had been placed in his 負傷させる ten days earlier, 原因（となる）ing 巨大な 苦痛.

He was 減ずるd to eating grass and 少しのd to 補足（する） the meagre diet of cabbage or potato soup and slowly 回復するd his strength.

After escaping a 囚人 of war （軍の）野営地，陣営, the paratrooper つまずくd across?the Germans' secret Mistel 実験 - a small, 操縦するd 計画（する） above a large 計画（する） packed with 爆発性のs that the 操縦する would 解放（する） and then guide, like a drone, to its 的

When out on a 大勝する march, a pre-arranged fight broke out の中で the British 囚人s to distract the guards, 許すing Mr Jeffries and his friend, Sandy Powell, to make a break for it.

After four days on the run, they つまずくd into a （疑いを）晴らすing in the forest.?

It appeared to be a 砂漠d German 離着陸場, with 計画（する）s stacked on 最高の，を越す of each other.

猛烈に tired, they fell asleep inside a 計画（する）, only to be awoken by members of the Luftwaffe pointing guns at them.

It was only after the war that they 明らかにする／漏らすd they had つまずくd upon the Germans' secret Mistel 実験 - a small, 操縦するd 計画（する） above a large 計画（する） packed with 爆発性のs that the 操縦する would 解放（する） and then guide, like a drone, to its 的.

支援する in 刑務所，拘置所, Mr Jeffries was 始める，決める to work in a sugar factory, where he 辛うじて 生き残るd an 試みる／企てるd 強襲，強姦 by 女性（の） ロシアの 囚人s of war who tried to 押し進める him into a vat of molasses.

He was 解放するd 支援する to Lancashire, where he became an art teacher and met his wife, Mona.

The 退役軍人 met his wife Mona after returning to Lancashire and working as an art teacher?

They teamed up so that John could teach at an "認可するd school" and Mona would be the housemother, and they crossed the Pennines to work at Richmond Hill School - the boys' school in the former 兵舎 in Gallowgate.

When that の近くにd in 1982, he utilised his artistic 技術s to 始める，決める up Rustic （手先の）技術s, making garden furniture and 絵 調印するs - his handiwork can be seen in the film A Woman of 実体 and the TV series All Creatures 広大な／多数の／重要な and Small.

In later years, he volunteered at the Broadacre Able Day Centre in Colburn, run by his daughter, Lynn, and in 2016, wrote a 調書をとる／予約する of his 戦時 偉業／利用するs する権利を与えるd A Spirit for Adventure.

About 15 years ago, he returned to Arnhem for the first time and in 2017, with the help of the Taxi Charity for 軍の 退役軍人s and the Red Devils 陳列する，発揮する team, he 成し遂げるd his first leap since 1944 at the Peterlee パラシュート（で降下する） Centre.

Mr Jeffries said at the time: 'It was 絶対 fantastic - it was a mixture of 恐れる and elation.'

A week later he repeated the feat at Arnhem as part of the 73rd 周年記念日 記念s of the 操作／手術 where he also met Boris Johnson.

He was in Arnhem only last September for the 周年記念日 where he 明かすd the monument to the 戦う／戦い on Ginkle ヒース／荒れ地.

He died on August 30, in Richmond, North Yorkshire surrounded by his family - his children Lynn and Paul and their partners, and his three grandchildren.??

His daughter Lynn Tomkinson said: 'Since he died, we've had hundreds and hundreds of messages from all over the world.

'He would be so 圧倒するd that so many people are making a fuss over him.'?

His funeral will be next Thursday at 1.30pm at St Mary's in Richmond.?

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It is hoped that a proper 記念の service will be held next year.

What was 操作／手術 Market Garden and how did it all go so 不正に wrong?

操作／手術 Market Garden, a World War II 進歩 designed to 許す ground 軍隊／機動隊s 接近 to 重要な 橋（渡しをする）s and roads through Nazi-占領するd Netherlands and in to Germany, was the brainchild of British Field 保安官 Bernard Montgomery.

In an 成果／努力 to bring the war to an 早期に end 重要な 橋（渡しをする）s in The Netherlands were 掴むd by the 101st and 82nd US 空輸の 分割s, and the 1st British 空輸の 分割 in 中央の-September 1944.

兵士s 集会 in Belgium were 軍隊d to wait on the 空輸の 分割s' 進歩 through The Netherlands before they could continue through to the Ruhr, Germany's 産業の 中心地域, to 崩壊（する） Adolf Hitler's 軍の machine.

Arnhem 橋（渡しをする） (pictured) was 'a 橋（渡しをする） too far' during 操作／手術 Market Garden. 軍隊／機動隊s were 侵略（する）／超過（する） by German 戦車／タンクs in 1944

And as each 空輸の 分割 landed, using パラシュート（で降下する）s and gliders, the five 橋（渡しをする）s were slowly 解放するd, 許すing British 30 軍団 to 前進する across the Rhine. Market was the 空輸の 操作／手術 and Garden was the 30 軍団' 前進する.?

橋（渡しをする）s that needed to be 首尾よく 逮捕（する）d were in Eindhoven, 13 miles from 30 軍団' start point, two smaller crossings in Veghel and 墓／厳粛／彫る／重大な, Nijmegen, 53 miles from the start, and Arnhem, 62 miles from the start.

By 解放するing the 橋（渡しをする）s The Netherlands would be 解放する／自由なd from the German army and an armoured 運動 into the Ruhr to 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なう the country's 軍備 factories could begin.

By 解放するing the 橋（渡しをする）s The Netherlands would be 解放する／自由なd from the German army and an armoured 運動 into the Ruhr to 手足を不自由にする／（物事を）損なう the country's 軍備 factories could begin

連合した パラシュート（で降下する） jumper 上陸 almost headfirst during a daylight 減少（する） in Holland during 操作／手術 Market Garden

But 連合した 知能 failed to （悪事，秘密などを）発見する the presence of German 戦車／タンクs, 含むing elements of two SS Panzer 分割s, and 30 軍団 was 圧倒するd before they could reach the final 橋（渡しをする） at Arnhem.

中尉／大尉／警部補 General Frederick Browning, a 最高の，を越す field 指揮官 of the 連合した 空輸の 軍隊s, 初めは 述べるd the 計画（する） as かもしれない 'a 橋（渡しをする） too far' - which turned out to be true.?

The 10,000 men from Major-General Roy Urquhart's 1st British 空輸の 分割 and 1st ポーランドの（人） 独立した・無所属 パラシュート（で降下する） 旅団 landed seven miles away from the 橋（渡しをする） at Arnhem.

British 落下傘部隊 on their way to land In Holland on 17 September 1944 in a C-47 輸送（する） 計画（する）

And only one 大隊 現実に reached the 橋（渡しをする）, as the 残り／休憩（する） were squeezed in to a pocket by German 軍隊s at Oosetbeeck to the West.

But why did it go wrong??

A 不足 of 輸送（する） 航空機, the wooded landscape and 天候 条件s all played a part in the 計画（する）'s downfall.

空輸の 軍隊／機動隊s had to be flown into The Netherlands in three 解除するs rather than all at once and later 厚い flog in England and low clouds over the battlezone meant 増強s and 供給（する）s could not be quickly flown in.

And trees surrounding the 軍隊／機動隊s meant wireless 無線で通信するs stopped working. にもかかわらず phones still 存在 利用できる, 連合した 軍隊s rarely used them in 事例／患者 communication was 迎撃するd - so there was a communication 決裂／故障.?

Three German 兵士s 降伏する to British 軍隊s 近づく the Wessem Canal during the 侵略 of the Netherlands on September 17, 1944

How many died and how were the 生き残るing 兵士s 避難させるd?

A week after 上陸, on September 24 and 25, some 2,100 軍隊／機動隊s from 1st 空輸の 分割 were フェリー（で運ぶ）d 支援する across the Rhine. Another?7,500 were either dead or made 囚人s of war.

にもかかわらず its ultimate 失敗 操作／手術 Market Garden is remembered for the courage shown by the 軍隊／機動隊s, and the 解放 of large parts of The Netherlands.

Canadians of the British second army during the 戦う／戦い of Arnhem.?A week after 上陸, on September 24 and 25, some 2,100 軍隊／機動隊s from 1st 空輸の 分割 were フェリー（で運ぶ）d 支援する across the Rhine. Another 7,500 were either dead or made 囚人s of war