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
THE NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES BILL
By The Rt Hon Louise Sandher-Jones MP, Minister for Veterans and People Editorial Foreword The Northern…
- Posted on 21 Oct 2025
- 06 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
REPEALING THE NORTHERN IRELAND LEGACY ACT — part 2
By Lieutenant Colonel Simon Barry (Retired) – Late PARA Foreword by Technical Editor Mark Briggs Following…
- Posted on 13 Oct 2025
- 24 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
REPEALING THE NORTHERN IRELAND LEGACY ACT…
By Lieutenant Colonel Simon Barry (Ret’d) — Late PARA Simon Barry was commissioned into The 3rd…
- Posted on 20 Aug 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
Reflections on D-DayCommemorations…
By Major General Ollie Kingsbury OBE, Colonel Commandant, The Parachute Regiment If I am honest, I…
- Posted on 14 Jul 2025
- 12 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