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Afghanistan (Op Herrick XIV)
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Afghanistan (Operation Herrick XIII)
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16 Air Assault Brigade formally took over as the lead formation of Task Force Helmand from 4th Mechanized Brigade on Sunday 10 October 2010. They were in theatre until April 2011.
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Bloody Sunday
by Paradata EditorOn 30 January 1972, since remembered as 'Bloody Sunday', a demonstration was held in Londonderry by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to protest at the policy of Internment without tria
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British Guiana
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In October 1965 3 PARA was deployed to British Guiana (now Guyana) in South America on internal security duties, reliving the 1st Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers. There had been considerable inter-racial political tension prior to recognition that Independence was to be granted in 1966.
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Churchill's Letter
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Following Churchill's wishes for "a corps of at least 5,000 parachute troops, suitably organised and equipped" a Parachute Training School was established at Ringway Airport near Manchest
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EOKA Cyprus
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Extremists supporting ‘Enosis’ Union with Greece on the island of Cyprus in 1955 formed a terrorist organization called EOKA (The National Union of Cypriot Combatants), between 1954-5.
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Greece (Operation Manna)
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In October 1944 the 2nd Independent Parachute Brigade group landed in Greece to harass the anticipated German withdrawal from the Balkans.
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Last Drop in Action
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The last occasion when British airborne forces dropped in action and the first time after the Second World War on a battalion scale was at Suez on the 5th November 1956.
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Rwanda (Operation Gabriel)
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In the immediate aftermath of Rwanda’s hard fought civil war and the genocide which accompanied it, some 650 UK personnel from 5 Airborne Brigade joined the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda (UNAMIR) as part of Operation GABRIEL.
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The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces National Memorial
by Harvey Grenville
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces National Memorial, which is located at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, commemorates those members of the Regiment and Airborne Forces wh
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