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 …
By Prosper Keating
“THE MEN WON’T LIKE IT IF WE LET WOMEN HAVE PARACHUTE WINGS!”
We do not know who might have said this during the 1939-1945 War but someone decided …
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 …
Please find attached the latest Association Newsletter. Many members are not on email so if you can please pass on this information to them by telephone or by printing it and posting it through their door.
If you have any
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 …
Niall Cherry, late of 23 & 144 PFA, tells the story of The Two Lieutenants.
This is the story of two young officers from The Parachute Regiment who took part …
