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The Association for serving and retired members of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces
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Details below include the …
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.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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By Simon Chambers
[British Airborne Forces veteran and author Simon Chambers, whose books include Devil’s Playground and Shadow of the Vulture, jumped at Arnhem last September with the Pathfinder International parachuting club to commemorate the men who were killed …
Chester University are looking for participants who are from any ethnic minority to complete a questionnaire about their time in the Armed Forces.
There is also an interview part to the study where there’s a £30 voucher for participating.
For …
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BY GEOFF BUTLER
EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
The Kiel Canal accident on September 9th, 1974 is one of the many tragic events punctuating Parachute Regiment and British Airborne Forces history. The disaster claimed the lives of five men serving with 15 PARA …
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By Ian Marshall
Editorial Foreword
The French surgeons who put Lee Crudgington back together again after his horrific parachuting accident in southern France early last July didn’t hold out much hope of his survival …
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By Prosper Keating
Derek Chambers is a self-taught painter. His natural talent and gift for scale and perspective shines through in works like ‘The Call-On, Isle of Dogs c.1950’. His …
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AN OVERDUE MEMORIAL by PROSPER KEATING
[Special thanks to Colin ‘Taff’ Edwards, Geoff Butler and others who sent in many of the photographs used in this article.]
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A meeting is to be held at 1000hrs on 15 Jun 22 at HQ Army, Andover to enable various MOD agencies and the Veterans’ Commissioner, to brief and take questions on the NI Troubles (Information and Reconciliation) Bill which has …
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 …