Geoffrey S. Barkway

Staff Sergeant Geoff Barkway of the Royal Engineers was one of the six glider pilots who landed British commandos at the Pegasus Bridge on 6 June 1944; their job was to capture the bridge, which had been scheduled for demolition by the Germans, in order to hamper the Allied invasion of Normandy. The British were successful in securing this bridge, as well as another bridge, thus assuring the success of the invasion, but Barkway was severely wounded in his right arm; gangrene set in and the arm was subsequently amputated. After the war, he became a divisional engineer for London Transport and served as a consultant in underground transport systems in Singapore and New York City.