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 …
The association for serving and retired members of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces
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 …
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THE INDIAN ARNHEM by Myles Sanderson
Foreword by the Editor
John Sanderson was one of the few officers of the 152nd (Parachute) Battalion to survive the Battle of Sangshak in India in March 1944. John Sanderson’s autobiography Secret Service in …
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Words by Alec Wilson, Terry Lowe and Rick Stroud, –– and the late Vic Gregg.
[With special thanks to Rick Stroud, co-author of Victor Gregg’s autobiography ‘Rifleman’ (Bloomsbury Press) and to photographer Andy Lewis for the use of his photographs…Chosen for Hermes by Jim “Jock” Love
From: James Love
Subject: Re: November
Date: 3 November 2021 at 10:08:40 CET
To: Prosper Keating <editor@prahq.com>
P, Gus is ex 9 Ind. Para Sqn. He was down south in 82. He did a …
What I’ve Shared, I’ve Shared
Earth, sand, and mud.
From holes, all over the world.
We’d stare, at the skies, and stars.
Share our secrets, trade our desires.
Thinking of home, wherever that was.
Thinking of those we loved…
Of …
War is Over, Our Spirits Gone…
Belgium soil
In Flanders Fields,
We dug down deep.
Where shells and bombs
Might not reach.
We lived in mud and filthy water,
Below deaths bugle call…
and mans lust.
For senseless… slaughter.
Having …
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Jock Love dedicates this poem to Captain Chris Dent of 2 PARA, killed in action below Darwin Hill on May 28th 1982.
From: James Love
Date: 28 September 2021 at 00:20:24 CEST
To: P Keating
Subject:Poem
P,
Footnote :
Before …
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
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Please see below a message from Major General Andy Harrison DSO MBE, Colonel Commandant The Parachute Regiment
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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 …
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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 …