On sale, honours of Arnhem hero

BRAVERY medals of a hero paratrooper who helped defend Arnhem Bridge in the Second World War are up for sale for £44,000.

Captain Bernard Briggs was one of 750 men who seized one end of the road bridge in the Dutch city during the ill-fated Operation Market Garden in September 1944.

The men had been meant to hold the bridge and wait for reinforcements. But they were cut off and forced to hold out

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Bogarde. Capt Briggs was captured defending the bridge and spent the remainder of the war as a PoW. His medals, including Military Cross, are being sold by London-based THE HEALTH LOTTERY

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Captain Briggs’s iconic paratroopers Red Beret. Right, his bravery medals being sold at auction

against a superior German tank division for four days. The famous action was immortalised in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far with Michael Caine, Sean Connery and Dirk