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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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Poem of the Month

Chosen by Jim “Jock” Love. This month, Jock has chosen two poems in honour of 2…

  • Posted on 11 Jun 2021
  • 02 min read