Lance-Corporal Robert Spencer Philip Hollott

Taken in October/November 1942. Lance-Corporal Hollott completed his parachute training in April 1942 and was posted to the 1st Parachute Brigade, with whom he served in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Arnhem. He returned home from Arnhem, and is believed to have been amongst the last to withdraw by swimming across the Rhine, yet his family noted that the experience had greatly altered him. He continued to serve with the 1st Parachute Brigade until August 1945, when he became an officer and was commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment, spending the next two years with the British Army of the Rhine. Hollott emigrated to Canada in the 1950's, living in Ontario and later in British Columbia, where he worked in law enforcement until retirement, as a jail guard and governor, and later as a deputy sheriff. He died in 1983. Copyright: Maxx-Phillippe Hollott.

Taken in North Africa, October/November 1942. Copyright: Maxx-Phillippe Hollott.