The Glider Pilot Regiment (UK)

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills, Christopher Buyers

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Page created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated 01.06.2006

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	The Glider Pilot Regiment
crest and tie by A. Melville-Brown	United Kingdom

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History

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Colonels-in-Chief

Colonels

Biography & Gallantry Awards
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How to find information about individuals who served in this corps


	1941.12.21	The Glider Pilot Regiment
	1942.02	part of Army Air Corps
	1949.08	independent corps
	1950.05.13	part of The Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps
	1957.09.01	disbanded (personnel to reorganised Army Air Corps)


		The Glider Pilot Regiment, 1942-1945, by Steve Wright.


	The Second World War: Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Merville Battery, Arnhem 1944, Rhine, Southern France, North-West Europe 1944-45, Landing in Sicily, Sicily 1943


		*Note:* no Colours were ever presented to the Regiment.

Badges:

Uniform:

1953-1957: blue; facings: Cambridge blue; piping: Cambridge blue
headdress:


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	Colonel Commandant:
	1942.11.12	F.M. The Rt Hon Alan Francis (Brooke), 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, KG, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO
	1951.07.23	Lt-Gen. Sir William John Eldridge, KBE, CB, CBE, DSO, MC [to 1957]


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		Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot (Simonides listing)
		Museum of Army Flying, Stocksbridge (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
		Museum of Army Flying, Stockbridge (Simonides listing)
		Loughborough War Memorial Museum (Simonides listing)
		Museum of Army Flying, Stockbridge (museum site)


	Regimental Journal:
		*The Eagle; the regimental magazine of the Glider Pilot Regiment*. Semiannual (slightly irregular 1946-50). Vol. 1, no. 1 (July, 1946)-winter, 1957.

	Full Histories:
		Chatterton, George. *The wings of Pegasus*. London : MacDonald, 1962.
		Chatterton, George. *The wings of Pegasus*. 1st American ed. Nashville, Tenn. : Battery Press, 1982. ISBN: 0898390605
		Smith, Claude. *The history of the Glider Pilot Regiment*. London : Leo Cooper, 1992. ISBN: 0850523265

	Second World War:
		Seth, Ronald ; Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, Viscount ; Hollinghurst, Leslie, Sir. *Lion with blue wings : the story of the Glider Pilot Regiment, 1942-1945*. London : V. Gollancz, 1955.
		Seth, Ronald ; Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, Viscount ; Hollinghurst, Leslie, Sir. *Lion with blue wings*. [Paperback ed.] London : Hamilton & Co., 1959.
		Lloyd, Alan. The gliders. [London?] : Leo Cooper, in association with Secker & Warburg, 1982. ISBN: 0436254700
		Lloyd, Alan. The gliders. [London] : Corgi, 1984. ISBN: 0552121673 (pbk)
		Lloyd, Alan. The gliders. London : Arrow Books, 1989. ISBN: 0099574608 (pbk.)
		Wright, Lawrence. *The Wooden sword*. London : Elek, 1967.
		Hemmings, John. *Silent approach : the operations of the Glider Pilot Regiment in World War II*. Lewes : Book Guild, 1999. ISBN: 1857763777
		Shannon, Kevin ; Wright, Stephen. *One night in June : the story of Operation Tonga, the initial phase of the invasion of Normandy, 1944*. Shrewsbury : Airlife, 1994. ISBN: 1853104922
		Shannon, Kevin ; Wright, Stephen. *One night in June : the story of Operation Tonga, the initial phase of the invasion of Normandy, 1944. Shrewsbury : Airlife, 2000. (Airlife classic*) ISBN: 1840371838
		Shannon, Kevin ; Wright, Stephen. *One night in June : the story of Operation Tonga, the initial phase of the invasion of Normandy, 1944*. [Burton-on-Trent] : Wrens Park Pub., 2000. ISBN: 0905778553
		Hagen, Louis Edmund. *Arnhem lift : diary of a glider pilot*. New York ; Toronto : Farrar & Rinehart, 1945. [autobiography; several subsequent eds.]
		Hagen, Louis Edmund ; Behr, Winrich. *Arnhem lift : and the German version*. New and expanded ed. London : L. Cooper, 1993. ISBN: 0850523753
		Morrison, Will. Horsa Squadron. London : Kimber, 1988. ISBN: 0718306848 [autobiography]
		*Roll of honour and record of battle casualties and honours of the Glider Pilot Regiment in the European war, 3rd September, 1939 to 8th May 1945*. [Mimeograph, 1945]