Arnhem

Varsity took place just five months after the disastrous Battle of Arnhem, which resulted in 90% casualties to the Glider Pilot Regiment.

Lieutenant Dermod Green Anderson, a glider pilot who landed with his troops in a village northwest of Arnhem, was killed when an enemy shell exploded near his trench just hours before the evacuation order came.

The burial service, which involved military rifle salutes and wreath-layings, took place as part of a series of commemorations this week to mark 80 years since the Battle of Arnhem.

Last weekend Ms Hall visited the Netherlands with the charity for Wandeltocht, the world's largest one-day commemorative march in remembrance of the Battle of Arnhem.

“The silence was deafening,” said Alastair King, the head of the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, or A.L.P.A., a nonprofit organization that operates the Lajamanu store and others in remote communities.