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
The digital magazine of The Parachute Regimental Association
By Prosper Keating The last major parachute and air-landing operation of the Second World War took…
By Hermes History Editor Geoff Butler [Editorial Foreword — Hermes does not necessarily endorse the views of its contributors but…
By Ian Marshall Editorial Foreword Following-on from his hard-hitting HERMES article on the Sgt Rachel Fisk affair, Ian…
By Prosper Keating Like other post offices, the Isle of Man Post Office issues commemorative first…
By Chris Dimond Military traditions are established in various ways. For many years, in Scottish Highland…
By Prosper Keating The widely accepted version of parachute assault history is that the Soviet Union’s…
By Dick Merry [Editorial Foreword — 2024 being the 110th anniversary of the outbreak of the…
By Technical Editor Mark Briggs CMIOSH [Some names and images are redacted in line with MOD…
Editorial Foreword What follows is an extract from a Parachute Regiment veteran’s memoir of his time…
Editorial Foreword In this edited extract from Grahame Warner’s history of the 10th Battalion The Parachute…
By Roy Mobsby Foreword This article was provided to Hermes by retired Sergeant Roy Mobsby who…
By Prosper Keating Sitting in Bergamote, a popular restaurant in the French port of Saint-Malo where…