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An Arnhem War Crime

Niall Cherry, late of 23 & 144 PFA, tells the story of The Two Lieutenants. This…

  • Posted on 11 Mar 2022
  • 17 min read

Athena – Women With Wings

By Prosper Keating “THE MEN WON’T LIKE IT IF WE LET WOMEN HAVE PARACHUTE WINGS!” We…

  • Posted on 10 Feb 2022
  • 56 min read

Victoria Crosses to the Airborne

By Paul Raison On 29th January 1856, Queen Victoria instituted the Victoria Cross to reward extreme…

  • Posted on 28 Jan 2022
  • 51 min read

Sangshak 1944 – Continued

THE INDIAN ARNHEM by Myles Sanderson Foreword by the Editor John Sanderson was one of the…

  • Posted on 28 Dec 2021
  • 47 min read

A Poppy Day Poem by Gus Hales

Chosen for Hermes by Jim “Jock” Love From: James Love Subject: Re: NovemberDate: 3 November 2021 at 10:08:40 CETTo: Prosper…

  • Posted on 11 Nov 2021
  • 02 min read

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…

  • Posted on 02 Nov 2021
  • 02 min read

Poppy Day Poem by Jock Love

War is Over, Our Spirits Gone… Belgium soilIn Flanders Fields,We dug down deep.Where shells and bombs Might…

  • Posted on 02 Nov 2021
  • 02 min read

The Poppy Lady

By Dick Merry All things come to those who wait. The proverb comes from the poem…

  • Posted on 11 Oct 2021
  • 21 min read

Poem of the Month by Jock Love

For those of us,who have shared…..,that uncertain moment. Of hostile shores, of unknown obstacles. For those…….,that made that beach,and…

  • Posted on 16 Sep 2021
  • 02 min read