The second Airborne Signals window
Parachute Regiment and Royal Signals,
presented and laid in the aisle.
In 1994 on the 50th Anniversary of
the Arnhem mission, No.216 Parachute
Signal Squadron donated the first
stained glass window to the church
in memory of Airborne Signallers,
including the two soldiers who fell in
the Falkland Islands War of 1982.
Also on this north wall of the church
are the Memorials to those men from
Caythorpe who were killed in the
two World Wars and one to the 13
Signallers serving with 1st Airborne
Signals in North Africa, Sicily and Italy,
1942-45.
A plaque on the wall of the
north aisle of the church explains
the Arnhem connections.
“On September 15th 1974
the North Aisle was named The
Arnhem Aisle and was dedicated
by the Bishop of Grantham to the
memory of the men of the First
The patterned carpet in the Arnhem Aisle
Around the church are artefacts
showing the unit’s history including The
Last Battle Order posted on the church
door at Oosterbeck, Arnhem.
A further recognition of this
association is the large boulder of
Falkland Island stone with a memorial
plaque, brought to St Vincent’s in 2000.
A second Airborne Signals stained
glass window was dedicated on 9th
September 2012. This was to remember
the Airborne Signals members who
have lost their lives on operations since
1994 and included the campaigns:
Rwanda, Kosovo, Sierra Leone,
Macedonia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Airborne Divisional Signals who
were billeted in the Parish and
neighbourhood before flying to
Holland in their valiant attempt to
establish a bridgehead over the
River Rhine at Arnhem.
September 17th 1944.”
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