Lance Sergeant Michael L. Keighery began military service as a Guardsman with the Grenadier Guards in 1960 and served with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR).
A year later he joined the Guards Independent Parachute Company in 1961, in which he served nearly 8 years, promoted to Lance Sergeant during this time.
He saw service in Greece and Cyprus in 1962, and was deployed to Borneo twice, in June 1964 and the following year, in 1965. He also took part in the Guards Para Coy deployments to Kenya in 1966 and later the Far East to Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong in 1968.
He remained active in the Guards veteran community and has been Secretary of the Guards Parachute Association since 2002. He can be contacted at mlkeighery@googlemail.com
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Profile photo on Salisbury Plain, 1962, submitted by M Keighery
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