PHOTOS : From the moving Double Hills ceremony
Members of the Buglers Association of the Light Division and Rifles pictured with guests Brigadier John Clark, the reviewing Officer, MP Jacob Rees-Mogg and the West of England Mayor Dan Norris.
Lowering of the Standards at the Last Post
Mike Knight drives the Reviewing Officer Brigadier John Clark to the Arnhem Memorial in his 1944 Ford Jeep
The annual ceremony to mark the 23 lives lost in September 1944, which saw a glider crash into the Paulton Hills on the way to Arnhem, was held this weekend.
The men who died were the first casualties of the so-called Bridge Too Far operation from Market Garden, the plan to land an Allied Airborne army behind German lines and end the war in 1944. They had taken off earlier from RAF Keevil airfield in Trowbridge.
Alongside relatives and army personnel, the local MP Jacob Rees Mogg and the West of England Mayor were at the ceremony.
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