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Witness History – Paddy Doyle
Former 2 Para Member Paddy Doyle is in Reach of the historical 700th fitness endurance milestone.
Wintery cold mornings, heavy snow and ankle-deep heavy rain has not stopped former 2 Para member Paddy Doyle set and break 699 documented fitness …
Victor Gregg: An Eternal Sentinel
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…A Poppy Day Poem by Gus Hales
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 …
POEM OF THE MONTH by JOCK LOVE
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 …
THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – NOVEMBER 2021
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THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION ACCOUNTS 2020
PRA Executive Committee AGM (Online) Monday 22 Sept 2021
The presentation was required as approval was required from the Executive Committee at the AGM 2021 due to the June 2021 meeting at the NMA being cancelled.
Members were provided with
Photo Memoirs
Are you looking for a new idea to save your service memories? Or maybe a novel Christmas present for that Veteran in your life?
We’ve been contacted by two brothers from an Army family. They’ve devised a new simple way …
ARMY PJIs SINCE 1940
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 PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – OCTOBER 2021
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Poem of the Month by Jock Love
Jock Love dedicates this poem to Captain Chris Dent of 2 PARA, killed in action below Darwin Hill on May 28th 1982.
From: James Love
Date: 28 September 2021 at 00:20:24 CEST
To: P Keating
Subject:Poem
P,
Footnote :
Before …
SANGSAK 1944 – PART 1
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. …
THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – NORTHERN IRELAND SUBMISSION 2021
Please find attached the final submission to Colonel (Retd) David Richmond at the Office for Veterans Affairs. He acknowledged receipt and thanked us for such a thorough and considered response. I thank you all for taking to read and comment
THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 2021
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COLONEL COMMANDANTS MESSAGE TO SOLDIERS, VETERANS AND FAMILIES
Please see below a message from Major General Andy Harrison DSO MBE, Colonel Commandant The Parachute Regiment
20210824-Col_Comdt_Message_Afghanistan.pdfTHE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – AUGUST 2021
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Victoria Crosses to the Airborne
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 …
ATHENA –– WOMEN WITH WINGS
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 …
POEM OF THE MONTH by Jock Love
Chosen for Hermes by The Airborne Poet Jim “Jock” Love.
THE PARACHUTE REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION – MONTHLY NEWSLETTER – JULY 2021
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