The Court Service Of Northern Ireland is preparing to hold a new inquest into the death of Desmond Healey, 14, who was killed in disputed circumstances during rioting in the Lenadoon area of west Belfast on August 9, 1971.
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The association for serving and retired members of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces
The Court Service Of Northern Ireland is preparing to hold a new inquest into the death of Desmond Healey, 14, who was killed in disputed circumstances during rioting in the Lenadoon area of west Belfast on August 9, 1971.
Members …
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By Ian Marshall
Editor’s Introduction
Ian Marshall, who served with 2 PARA, the Pathfinder Platoon and the Red Devils, is regarded as one of the most experienced parachutists in the world, with more than 12,500 …
South East Regional Secretary’s event …
Imperial War Museum … Free Admission. Book Your Tickets here: https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london
When – 18th May 2022 …
So, make your own-way, Waterloo Main Line Station is 10 minutes-walk away, getting there…
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by Prosper Keating
On April 28th 2017, RAF Brize Norton issued a communiqué: “For the first time since the Second World War, Physical Training Instructors from the British Army will graduate as Parachute Jump Instructors (PJIs) at RAF Brize …
THE INDIAN ARNHEM by Myles Sanderson
Foreword by the Editor
If the small groups of 50th (Indian) Para Bde survivors who made it back through the jungle to Imphal after the Battle of Sangshak felt defeated, they were wrong. …
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 …
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By Mark Briggs
Part 1
British government policy over the past two decades has been to encourage and grow the film industry in the United Kingdom. Many of the major Hollywood directors and production companies now base their film and …
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 …
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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 …