Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lieutenant

Unit:

1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, Divisional Troops, 1st Airborne Division, British Army

Awarded on:

February 26th, 1946

Citation:
"Lieut. GUTHRIE was wounded and captured on 17 September 1944 at ARNHEM. En route for Germany in a locked cattle truck on 26 September 1944 Lieut. GUTHRIE and five others forced their way out of the trucck and jumped in darkness from the moving train near RIJISSEM(?) He waslked for the reaminder of the night and stopped at a farmhouse whose occupants put him in touch with the Underground. He was given civilian clothes and from then until the end of March 1945 assisted the Underground by collecting supplies dropped from the air, instructing in the use of arms, writing articles for the Underground press and making false German stamps. In spite of several Gestapo raids, neither Lieut. GUTHRIE nor the other escapers who joined him were caught and on 1 April 1945 they came into the hands of advancing Allied troops."

WO 373/101/298