'C' Squadron. 
The Glider Pilot Regiment.

Tetrarch alights
A Tetrarch Light Tank exits from a Hamilcar.




​No 2 Wing GPR

'C' Squadron was part of No 2 Wing of the Glider Pilot Regiment.  It was the heavy glider squadron and consisted of 6 Flight and 7 Flight.  For much of the war it was based at Tarrant Rushton in Dorset.

The Squadron Commander was Major J. (Jim) A.C. Dale.  6 Flight was commanded by Captain Bernard Halsall and 7 Flight by Captain F. C. (Freddie) Aston.

Battle Honours

'C' Squadron flew Hamilcar gliders into Ranville on D-Day,  Wolfheze as part of Market Garden and finally on Operation Varsity, the Rhine Crossing in 1945.

Nearing the End

A picture taken post war. Sadly the life of the Hamilcar was nearing it's end. With the end of the war with Japan, the final plans for the glider - motorised or not - were abandoned.

​Here we see No.1 Flight in September 1945.