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The Kiel Canal Disaster 1974

BY GEOFF BUTLER EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The Kiel Canal accident on September 11th, 1974 is one of…

  • Posted on 01 Feb 2024
  • 54 min read

PRA REORG

HERMES EDITOR PROSPER KEATING CHATS WITH NATIONAL SECRETARY PAUL RAISON Those of you who use social…

  • Posted on 24 Jan 2024
  • 20 min read

Sangshak 1944 – Continued

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

  • Posted on 10 Jan 2024
  • 47 min read

Sangsak 1944 – Part 1

THE INDIAN ARNHEM by Myles Sanderson Foreword by the Editor If the small groups of 50th (Indian)…

  • Posted on 01 Jan 2024
  • 17 min read

Ukrainian War

By Paul Biddle MBE In this article, Paul Biddle MBE reminds us that Putin’s war on…

  • Posted on 18 Oct 2023
  • 18 min read

A LETTER FROM NOBBY ARNOLD

By Geoff Butler Hermes thanks those who supplied images, including www.paradata.org.uk Editor’s Foreword: The legendary Herbert…

  • Posted on 26 Jul 2023
  • 13 min read

The PARA Who Wouldn’t Die…

By Ian Marshall Editorial Foreword The French surgeons who put Lee Crudgington back together again after…

  • Posted on 05 Aug 2022
  • 11 min read

The Aldershot Bombing 1972

AN OVERDUE MEMORIAL by PROSPER KEATING [Special thanks to Colin ‘Taff’ Edwards, Geoff Butler and others…

  • Posted on 02 Jun 2022
  • 52 min read

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