THE UMBRELLA WIELDING WARRIOR OF WW2 #history #ww2 #heroic #shorts

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Published Apr 4, 2024

One of the most eccentric soldiers during World War 2 was Digby Tatham-Warter.
Digby joined the army on 21 January 1937 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant.
In 1942, Digby joined the Parachute Regiment and was later involved in the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944.
He charged the German lines with an umbrella and wore a bowler hat, believing that only a “bloody fool of an Englishman” would wield such a weapon. He took prisoner 150 German soldiers, including SS troops.
Digby trained his men in bugle call messaging as radios were unreliable.
He disabled a German armoured car with his umbrella by shoving the umbrella through the car's observational slit and poking the driver in the eye. Bugle calls were used most in the battle; the message "out of ammo, God save The King" was radioed out before Digby and his men were captured. Later, he escaped from the Germans in a hospital where he was being treated for battle injuries and evaded capture until he was later rescued. And yet he survived the war, winning the Distinguished Service Order.

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