To: Major-General R. E. Urquhart D.S.O.,
    Commander, I st airborne Division.

Commander, 30 Corps is sending you a letter from himself and his corps, expressing their
unstinted admiration and gratitude for the gallant part played by the Ist airborne division
in the 2nd Army's drive to cross the Rhine.

He will explain to you, and in his expression of opinion I absolutely concur, that without
the action of the I st Airborne Division in tying up, pinning down, and destroying in large
numbers the German forces in the Arnhem area, the crossing of the Waal, the capture of the
bridges at Nijmegen and, above all, the advance from the bridgehead, would have been quite
impossible. I am intensely proud of the magnificent fight put up by your division.

With you, I deeply regret the sacrifice that has been entailed in the division which I had
the honour to raise originally. I do not hesitate to say that the operation, taken as a
whole, had done more to speed up the war, and further disrupt the already disorganized
German Army, than any other action up to date. In fact, none other than an
Airborne Operation could possibly have achieved the same result.

(Signed) F. A. M. Browning,
Lieut. General,
Commander, British Airborne Corps.
B.L.A.