Off his head.'. 3 PARA Officers at Harbor Club, Kyrenia, Cyprus, 1951. On the advice of his solicitor he declined to comment, although, as he now admits 'I really wanted to sit there and get on my knees and say: cover it up, cover it up, we don't need this. There, little appetite remains for uncovering the dirty truths of a war which Argentina both started and lost, especially as the present mood in that country is for rapprochement with Britain. continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Pte Hunt, 3 PARA has a trim – clippers powered from street lamp, Ismailia, 25/1/52. A platoon sergeant came, half crawling, up to us. Official Telegram regarding the wounding of Sgt Baxter. Five parachute battalions landed prior to D-Day (1944) to destroy bridges and gun batteries. Born: 30th April 1927 60 Cordite Street, Woolwich. 'Crap-hats' (soldiers from other regiments who do not wear the red beret) were to be despised, and confrontation with them sought. 3 PARA Jeeps under Hastings for ready air drop, RAF Kasfareet, Canal Zone, 1952. Mastiff in use with B Coy, 3 PARA, Musa Qala, Afghanistan, August 2008. 3 PARA soldier moving from compound to compound, Afghanistan, August 2008, Member of 3 PARA, armed with a GPMG, observing for enemy activity, Afghanistan, August 2008. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when Pte Neil Edwards, 3 PARA on vehicle patrol, Iraq, 2005, Pte Edwards returns to base at the end of another border patrol, Iraq, 2005. Pallbearers from 3 PARA enter the church for the funeral of Pte John Howard, 21 December 2010, The 3 PARA pallbearers led the funeral procession of Pte John Howard, 21 December 2010, A soldier from 3 PARA Support Coy enjoys Christmas Dinner, Patrol Base Shizad, Afghanistan, 25 December 2010, Sgt Wayne Shorthouse receives the Estonian Army Silver Cross of Merit. A motor launch bringing back some of the paratroops who attacked the radar post at Bruneval, 1942, Troops of 1st Airborne Division near Syracuse, Sicily, 1943. This fought in Sicily (1943), Italy (1943-44), southern France (1944) and Greece (1944-45). Outline Plan for 3 PARA landings during Op Corporate, Personal Account of L.Cpl A E Reece: Escape from Arnhem. Longlease Road, For this reason, Bramley's account of events on Longdon was seen by the 3rd Battalion as a long-overdue correction of the imbalance. C Company, 3 PARA fly the flag in Port Stanley, 14 June 1982. 1948-50 Lt Col PD Maud, MBE Quite different. Bramley's account of the battle for Longdon, however, differs considerably from official versions. 1954-7 Lt Col PE Crook, DSO, OBE Sgt Chris Howard, 3 PARA Anti-Tank Platoon, San Carlos, Falklands, 1982. The defending Royal Marines detachment at both locations were taken prisoner after fierce firefights. 3 PARA guard on Kassassine railway station, Egypt, 4/11/51. 3 PARA serach for arms, Cpl Smith, Ismailia, Egypt, 21/1/52. Guidelines. A member of A Coy 3 PARA with local children in Chah-e Anjir village, Afghanistan. Oldest first, -1) ? 1987-8 Lt Col RD Llewellin Signals Platoon, D Company, 3 PARA, Kenya, 2010. Op BANNER Feb-Jun 78 4 Months B Company The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment September 1945. Intelligence Section, Headquarter Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion. We are sitting in an area of the bar known as 'Trapping Corner', where paratroopers traditionally attempt to charm members of the Women's Royal Army Corps. . Its actions on 'Bloody Sunday' (1972) in Derry remain controversial. To date, his description of the clifftop shooting remains the only first-hand account of the incident. I helped to make sure they were completely dead, if you know what I mean. Small arms shooting, Budd VC/Absolon MM Military Skills Competition, 3 PARA, Colchester, November 2012. They all smelt of their burners, a kind of stench of damp wood and ash.'. 3 PARA, Battalion Football Team, 1985-86. ', 'I said to him, 'So what, why the big scene? Stewart 'Scouse' McLaughlin, a Liverpudlian corporal, was an archetypal Green Eye. Three Para, as a spearhead element of 3 Commando Brigade, were assigned Longdon, the bleakest and most prominent of these. Sgt Wilf Bailey MM and Sgt John Sgt McDonnell DCM, after receiving medals, c1944. 1967-9 Lt Col FA Ward-Booth During these years the regiment served on Cyprus, in Bahrain and Aden. Despite his vehement distrust of the press ('They've bloody crucified me and my family') Bramley has finally agreed to break his silence, and we meet at his semi-detached house. Op BANNER Feb-Jun 74 4 Months What were they expecting, a tank attack from Guatemala?' Coronation Party from the Parachute Regiment parade on HM The Queen's Coronation, 2 June 1953. Paratroopers descend to earth from a Royal Air Force Hercules aircraft during a demonstration of their skills, 2012. In January this year two detectives from Scotland Yard's International and Organised Crime Branch flew to the Falkland Islands to conduct preliminary investigations; in March they were followed by a further team including a forensic expert, a photographer, and a serving member of 3 Para who had fought at Mount Longdon. Paratroopers of A Company, 3 PARA move in to take the airport centre of El Gamil airfield while other men are still descending. But two years ago, they were accused of atrocities by one of their own. Interviewed 10 January 1945. 3rd Bn PARACHUTE REGIMENT - Palestine 1945-1948 . We'd all grown up fighting, and the Para Reg, with its rules and regulations and discipline, became our family. It was never my thing particularly, but I remember one bloke, we'd overrun a bunker, and he bayoneted this Argy through the throat and as the guy fell back dead he grabbed him and sawed his ear off with the bayonet. The following year, the Glider Pilot Regiment was disbanded, leaving the Parachute Regiment in a single-regiment corps. Citation for Capt Matthew Selfridge, June 1982. He continues, nevertheless, to live in his own, and his former regiment's home town of Aldershot. Service of Remembrance, Mount Longdon, 11 June 2012. Palestine, 1946. 16 Air Assault Brigade supports London Poppy Day, 3 November 2016. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Musketeer operation log from November 5-11 1956. Remains of an Argentine position on west slope, Mount Longdon, 11 June 2012. Member of 3rd Parachute Battalion takes illegal immigrant back on board ship at Haifa docks, 1947. A letter to Sgt Baxter's wife informing her about his condition. A pause in operations for 4 members of D Company 3 PARA. In fact, Bramley was told, Mason had made an earlier report of the incident to the Labour MP Tam Dalyell. The King and Queen meet the RSMs of the regular battalions, Aldershot 19 July 1950. Soldiers from 3 PARA in VIRTUS equipment, Exercise Griffin Strike, Salisbury Plain, 2016. Peter Cuxson, an ex-Para Foreign Legionnaire who was convicted with Bramley (and admits his own guilt), told me: 'I can absolutely confirm that Bramley didn't steal the above (pyrotechnics).'. Conversion course to Hastings aircraft, 3 PARA, Canal Zone, Egypt, February 1952. Members of 8 Platoon, C Coy 3 PARA, Belfast 1978. During the next two years, several parachute units were disbanded. Pte Charlesworth and friend outside camp, Cyprus, summer 1956. Ground forces from XXX Corps failed to link up. The Parachute Regiment - also known as 'The Maroon Machine' after the red beret worn by its members - is an elite, hermetic and intensely competitive corps. Account of 3 PARA's operations against EOKA in Cyprus, 1956. Members of 3 PARA, Operation Musketeer, 1956. Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, On Mount Longdon: Parachute Regiment came back from the Falklands with their reputation for bravery reinforced. 'The ladders had labels on, I remember, reading 'Texas Homecare'. As a therapeutic exercise, he was persuaded by his father to write an account of the campaign. Pte 'Kev' Eaton, 6 Platoon 3 PARA with General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), Mount Vernon, Falklands, 1982. A 3 PARA soldier observes Hunter fighter-jet attack near the Wadi Dhubson, May 1964. 'Scouse, I think, knew he was going to die on that mountain,' says Gray. A smiling member of 3 PARA rides a small tricycle through a street in Port Said while locals look on. Winners, Army (Egypt) Rugby Football Cup 1952/53 (Seven –A Side), 3 PARA. Argentina invaded the Falklands, 3 Para crossed the Atlantic by P & O liner, and at midnight on 11 June 1982, A and B Rifle Companies were waiting at their start lines beneath a freezing mountain. October Spalding, Lincs, 1944, No 9 Platoon, C Company, 3rd Parachute Battalion, taken at Spalding, Lincolnshire, in July 1944. Account of 3 PARA's actions in Falklands by Captain Norman Menzies. In 1991 this account was published as Excursion to Hell. With a population from various ethic backgrounds. The remnants of the battalion were withdrawn to England. Members of 3 PARA, in front of a Humber Pig, Belfast, 1973. 2/3rd Parachute Battalion, Palestine c1946. 3 PARA Drums & Colours Ledra Palace Hotel, Cyprus, 1951. A Company 3 PARA on patrol in the local village of Chah-e Anjir alongside the Afghan National Army. Cpl Connolly, Outside Camp Roberts, Kandahar Air Field (KAF), Afghanistan, Summer 2008. CSM Simpson, Arnhem Day Parade, Montgomery Lines, 1988. A British and Spanish Para prior to a drop, Ex Iberian Eagle, Spain, December 2012. It attacked Mount Longdon during the night of 11/12th June and ejected the Argentinean defenders after 10 hours bloody fighting that cost the battalion 22 men and earned Sergeant Ian MacKay a posthumous VC. Members of B Coy, 3 PARA with veterans on Mount Longdon, 11 June 2012. I gave my word, though, that I would never mention his (the alleged killer's) name.'. Be the first to hear about our latest events, exhibitions and offers. Impressed by the performance of Germany’s paratroops in the first two years of the Second World War (1939-45), British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called for the formation of a British equivalent. Buildings burn on El Gamil airfield. Pte Hunt, 3 PARA, somewhere in the desert between Suez and Cairo. Six battalions fought at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden (1944). The existence of the letter was good news to Bramley, who is anxious that his book should not be seen by his former comrades as either untrue or the sole cause of the investigation. X beckoned me to look at them. Any such award, I was told, was vetoed when an officer discovered that the dead soldier's ammunition pouch was filled with ears and other Argentine body-parts. They'd had to put up with so much. Message about situation at Wireless Ridge including enemy positions. Argentinian prisoners are led away on Mount Longdon. Group photograph of 3rd Parachute Battalion Officers, July 1945. . To one flank, with Support Company, Bramley readied his machine-gun. B Coy 3 PARA arriving Waynes Keep Nicosia Cyprus Operation TRIMED 1951.
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