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Major Robert Reid Maitland MB CHB RAMC
|
Rank |
Major |
|
Name & Decorations |
Robert Reid Maitland MB CHB |
|
Service |
British Army |
|
Unit |
Royal Army Medical Corps |
|
Attached To |
Deputy Assistant Director Medical Servces RAMC 225 Parachute Field Ambulance RAMC Divisional HQ, British 6th Airborne Div. |
|
Operation |
Operation DEADSTICK |
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Date of Death |
7th June 1944 |
|
Place of Death |
Ranville, France |
|
Circumstances |
Died of Wounds sustained whilst treating a casualty |
|
Age |
25 |
|
Buried or Commemorated at |
Ranville Churchyard |
|
Grave or Memorial Number |
Grave 48 |
167788 Major Robert Reid Maitland MB CHB RAMC
Son of Harry Reid Maitland and Helen Maitland. Born in 1918 in Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Husband of Mary Lindsay Maitland, of Aberdeen. M.B., Ch.B. (Aberdeen).
Major Robert Reid Maitland served with the Royal Army Medical Corps attached 6th Airborne Divisional HQ, and took part in the D-Day landings to Normandy on 5-6 June 1944. Major Maitland died of wounds sustained whilst treating a casualty, on 7 June 1944, aged 25 years old. He is now buried at Ranville Churchyard, near the War Cemetery, in Normandy.