Chosen for Hermes by The Airborne Poet Jim “Jock” Love.

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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 …

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 …

Jay Morgan Hyrons, widow of Gary Bingley MM+, profiles James ‘Jock’ Love, Airborne gunner, Foreign Legionary and Man of Letters, also known as The Airborne Poet

James Love, also known as Jock, is a bear of a man …

We asked 7 RHA and French Foreign Legion veteran Jock Love, a war poet who ranks with bygone greats like Edmund Blunden, Alan Seeger and Isaac Rosenberg, if he would choose a Poem of the Month for us. For May …

By Prosper Keating

Captain Lionel Queripel of the 10^th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross after the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, has been commemorated in various ways over the years. The latest tribute is …

New Veterans Minister Leo Docherty MP is a member of the Aldershot branch of the PRA. He told us: “My Service with 16 Air Assault Brigade profoundly shaped the …

Phyllis Latour MBE, who holds British Army Parachute Wings, recently celebrated her 100^th birthday in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the last survivor of the female agents recruited by the Special Operations Executive’s French Section during the Second World …