Ronald’s battalion was operating in the Low Countries in the autumn of 1944, taking part in the strongly contested assault landings on Walcheren Island, at the mouth of the Scheldt in “Operation Infatuate”; the code name given to an Anglo-Canadian operation during the war to open the port of Antwerp to shipping and relieve logistical constraints.

The exact circumstances of his death at the age of 19 on Sunday 5^th November 1944 are unknown: Ronald is one of two OWs to lie in Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery, Netherlands.

Son of George Featherstone & Nellie Featherstone of Shirley, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

A copy of this story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:-
Private Ronald George FEATHERSTONE