The regiment later participated in the battle for the Falaise pocket, and as part of the armoured forces in Operation Market Garden - the regiment pushing as far as Driel, on the south bank of the Rhine a couple of miles from Arnhem.
The following day, on 1 June, a ceremony was held at Driel, the town where the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade fought.
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A small part of the Brigade with Sosabowski was dropped near Driel on 19 September, but it was not until 21 September when the rest of the Brigade finally arrived in the distant town of Grave, falling directly into the waiting guns of the Germans camped out around the area.
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Guido van Driel, a cartoonist from Amsterdam, was assigned a graphic novel related to Saint Boniface, on the occasion of the 1250 anniversary of his martyrdom, by the Dongeradeel municipality in which Dokkum is located, the place of the saint's martyrdom.