Chotie qualified as a PT Instructor on 22nd September.
Her ‘Statement of Service’ and ‘Service and Casualty’ form state:
Attended Initial P.T. Course at No. 2 A.T.S. PT School w.e.f. 30 Aug to 22 Sept 44.
Result : - “AX”.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands the Guards were still prevented from reaching Arnhem bridge by determined German resistance at Elst
The XXX Corps lifeline was severed by the Germans between Uden (south-west of Grave) and Veghel cutting off the front of the advance with the US 82nd Airborne and part of 61st Recce.
43rd (Wessex) Division was brought up across the River Waal and attacked towards Driel, on the south bank of the Lower Rhine, where they linked up with the Polish Airborne. Dick’s former unit, 43rd Recce protected the left flank of the Division on ‘the Island’. Some of the Polish troops succeeded in crossing the Rhine in small boats and joining Urquhart’s Airborne at Oosterbeek, who were still holding their besieged position.
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