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Paras in the Tower of London…

By Garett Fitzgerald of the PRA’s Ilford 84 Branch On a chilly October Sunday morning, visitors…

  • Posted on 27 Oct 2025
  • 09 min read

IS GAZA LIKE ULSTER?

By Lieutenant Colonel Simon Barry (Ret’d) Simon Barry was commissioned into The 3rd Battalion The Parachute…

  • Posted on 17 Oct 2025
  • 23 min read

OÙ SONT LES ROSBIFS?

By Stuart Boxall-Hunt Special thanks to UNP photographer Isabelle Garnier who very kindly photographed the British…

  • Posted on 11 Oct 2025
  • 34 min read

THE FRENCH SAS 1941-1945

By David Portier (Translated from the French by Prosper Keating) Editorial Foreword: David Portier is the…

  • Posted on 21 Jul 2025
  • 30 min read

Free French Paras…

By Hermes Editor Prosper Keating With the Ilford 84 and London branches of the Parachute Regimental…

  • Posted on 06 Jul 2025
  • 20 min read

Jimmy Grant’s Denison Smock

By Tommy Simpson Special thanks to Stuart McLaren for some of the photos Editorial Foreword Tommy…

  • Posted on 04 Apr 2025
  • 09 min read

Varsity Eighty Years On

By Prosper Keating The last major parachute and air-landing operation of the Second World War took…

  • Posted on 22 Mar 2025
  • 12 min read

FLASHBACKS — SOUTH ARMAGH 1973…

By Hermes History Editor Geoff Butler [Editorial Foreword — Hermes does not necessarily endorse the views of its contributors but…

  • Posted on 19 Dec 2024
  • 73 min read

Rachel Fisk 3 — The HSE acts…

By Ian Marshall Editorial Foreword Following-on from his hard-hitting HERMES article on the Sgt Rachel Fisk affair, Ian…

  • Posted on 23 Nov 2024
  • 36 min read