To: Major - General R. E. Urquhart D.S.O.,
   
I want to congratulate you and all ranks of your division on their
tremendous achievements during the last eight days of fighting.  We realize
that, had it not been for you, we should have had no chance whatever of
securing the Nijmegen bridges intact.
I am afraid that your losses have been very heavy, but in your fighting
north of the Nederrijn, you contained a large number of German reserves,
and while your Parachute Brigade was holding the north end of the bridge
at Amhem, you prevented any reinforcements from moving down towards
Nijmegen.  This just gave us time to secure these vital bridges.
There is no doubt that this may quite likely, have a decisive influence
on the war, and will at any rate, I am certain, shorten the period of the war
by several weeks. Well done first Airborne division.

On behalf of 2nd Army - many thanks.

(Signed) B. G. Horrocks,
Lieut. General,
Commander 30 Corps.