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Brian Wilson obituary: platoon commander in Operation Market Garden
On September 10, 1944, Lieutenant Brian Wilson’s platoon in Number 2 Company, 3rd Battalion Irish Guards (3IG), took part in the daring capture of the Grote-Barreel bridge over the Meuse-Escaut canal in Belgium close to the Dutch border. They had outrun …