Mark R Herbert | ParaData

Mark Richard Herbert joined the Depot of the Parachute Regiment in June 1983 aged 19.

Private ‘Herbie’ Herbert Passed Out of P Company with 495 Platoon on Friday 27 January 1984. He was posted to D Company the 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) and deployed on Operation Banner (Northern Ireland).

During his service, he served with D Company and C Company Signals Platoon, 2 PARA in America, Belize, Kenya and Oman.

Pte Herbert also worked alongside the SAS in Morocco.

In 1987 he completed his German Military Language Course becoming a proficient Military German speaker.

After returning from another tour of Northern Ireland he left the Parachute Regiment in January 1990, having served for six and a half years.

He became a member of The Parachute Regimental Association (PRA).

Mark died suddenly on Saturday 12 December 2015 aged 51 years.

By Wendy George with information from Mark Rutherford

1984
The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Private)

Operations

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Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)

A brief honeymoon as peace keepers between two warring communities locked in civil unrest descended into a virtual civil war between Republican IRA and Protestant para-military groups during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ that were to last 37 years.

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Signals Platoon, 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, Montgomery Lines, Aldershot. 1989.

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C (Bruneval) Company, 2 PARA, Ternhill Camp, Shropshire, 10 June 1988.

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