Geoff Barkway(1921-2006)
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.