[1] Another account of an incident near the Dutch town of Driel, during Operation Market Garden, reads:[2][3]"Whilst he [Major General Stanislaw Sosabowski] was in the western sector of Driel he heard the sound of armoured cars approaching and naturally assumed them to be German.
The four scout vehicles, commanded by Captain Wrottesley of No.5 Troop, C Squadron, the 2nd Household Cavalry, had been able to break through the German defences north of Nijmegen under the cover of fog, and they encountered the Polish bicycle patrol soon a few hours before arriving at Driel.
"For leading his troop of armoured cars through the German lines, and establishing contact with the Polish Parachute Brigade on the south bank of the River Rhine, Wrottesley received the Military Cross.
The German informed Wrottesley's then-wife, Mary, that: "I went to Berlin to get a blast from Hitler, and Dick went to get a medal from the King.
In her obituary, published in the Daily Telegraph in 2006,[7] it was reported that:In 1949 Marion met an Old Harrovian, Dick Wrottesley, in the Bag of Nails [sic] nightclub.