11th Battalion

The 11^th Parachute Battalion did not return to the UK with the rest of the 4^th Brigade. They had remained behind in Palestine, when the rest of the 4^th Parachute Brigade moved to Tunisia, as they were not complete due to 'A' Company being tasked with a parachute operation on the island of Cos in September 1943.

The 11^th Battalion eventually received their movement order between the 1st and 3rd December 1943, and proceeded to Port Said, via Haifa and Gaza on the 9^th/10^th December 1943. They sailed for England aboard the S.S. Orion on the 14^th December 1943. They arrived at the port of Liverpool on the 6^th January 1944, after laying over at the port of Augusta, Sicily, for four days.

They immediately boarded a train which went through the night to deliver them to Leicester Railway Station at 2 o'clock in the morning on the 7th January, they were then taken by Company groups to their billets.

The Battalion was spread out as follows:

Battalion H.Q. and HQ-Company - The Lodge Manor House, Great Glen.

'A' Company - Carlton Curlieu Hall.

'B' Company - Kibworth Hall.

'C' Company - Glen Parva Grange

SP-Company - Wigston Fields.

They remained in these billets for 4 months until the 8^th May when they moved to the Militia Camp off Welby Lane Camp at Melton Mowbray. This meant the whole battalion would be in one place, and they would remain there until the 18^th September.