Please find attached the final submission to Colonel (Retd) David Richmond at the Office for Veterans Affairs. He acknowledged receipt and thanked us for such a thorough and considered response. I thank you all for taking to read and comment
THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2021
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COLONEL COMMANDANTS MESSAGE TO SOLDIERS, VETERANS AND FAMILIES
Please see below a message from Major General Andy Harrison DSO MBE, Colonel Commandant The Parachute Regiment
20210824-Col_Comdt_Message_Afghanistan.pdfTHE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – AUGUST 2021
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Victoria Crosses to the Airborne
By Paul Raison
On 29th January 1856, Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross to reward extreme valour in the face of the enemy. Since then, there have been just 1,358 awards of the Victoria Cross, including three bars for second …
ATHENA –– WOMEN WITH WINGS
By Prosper Keating
“THE MEN WON’T LIKE IT IF WE LET WOMEN HAVE PARACHUTE WINGS!”
We do not know who might have said this during the 1939-1945 War but someone decided …
POEM OF THE MONTH
Chosen for Hermes by The Airborne Poet Jim “Jock” Love.
THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – JULY 2021
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POEM OF THE MONTH
Chosen by Jim “Jock” Love. This month, Jock has chosen two poems in honour of 2 PARA, with whom he served in the Falklands War, and 3 PARA after the Battles of Wireless Ridge and Mount Longdon. As he …
HONOUR THY FATHER
By Myles Sanderson
On the 70th anniversary of VJ Day in August 2015, The Times published the following letter from me:
“Sir, In March 1944 my late father John Sanderson, a captain in 152nd Battalion of 50th Indian Para Brigade …