Record Review Peter Chard Name: Peter Chard Army Number: 105888 Age: 24 Rank: Capt. Function: Function unknown. Platoon-Troop-Flight: Platoon-Troop-Flight unknown. Company-Squadron: 1st Airlanding Light Regiment Unit-Group: Unit-Group unknown Division-Transport: 1st Airborne Division Regiment: Royal Regiment of Artillery Nationality: British Geniology: Son of Richard Harmer Chard and Mary Annie Rachel Chard, Ashford, Kent, U.K. Died when: 9-10-1944 Died where: Oosterbeek Spot: Koude Herberg Decorations: MiD Grave number: 24-A-14 Burial location: Oosterbeek, War Cemetery, Netherlands Graves Overview: Overview Image 1 Click to view (The Flampanzer that hit Capt. Chard) Personal Notes: Capt. Peter Chard tried to knock out a flame-thrower tank near Koude Herberg area at Oosterbeek. Unfortunatly he was caught by the flame-thrower and was set alight. He ran back along the road with his clothes in flames, shouting for someone to shoot him to end his agony. Instead he was rolltemped in the sand to put out the flames. Capt. Chart suffered for three more weeks from his wounds and then died in a hospital at Apeldoorn.