Record Review Percy Louis
Name: Percy Louis
Army Number: 112068
Age: 29
Rank: Capt.
Function: attached HQ 1st Airborne Corps
Platoon-Troop-Flight: Platoon-Troop-Flight unknown.
Company-Squadron: Company-Squadron unknown
Unit-Group: 133 Parachute Field Ambulance
Division-Transport: 1st Airborne Division
Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
Nationality: British
Died when: 24/25-9-1944
Died where: Oosterbeek
Spot: River Rhine
Decorations: MiD
Grave number: Grave number unknown, or person has no gravestone.
Burial location: No known grave
Personal Notes: Capt. Louis volunteered to cross from the south side of the Rhine to the besieged troops in Oosterbeek by assault boat with his CO under a Red Cross flag. Was captured then released to return to south bank. That night he returned with the 4th Dorsets in an attack to get more supplies through.

There is evidence that Capt. Louis drowned trying to swim the Rhine during the night crossing (24/25 Sept.) back for more medical supplies.



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