4th Parachute Battalion Commanding Officers

Commanding Officers:

4th Parachute Battalion

1942           Lt Col MR Hope-Thompson MC
1942-3        Lt Col JA Dene
1943-4        Lt Col HB Coxen, DSO MC
1944-5        Lt Col De V. Martin
1945-6        Lt Col GP Rickord, DSO
1946           Lt Col PHC Hayward
1946-7        Lt Col HB Coxen, DSO MC

4/6th Parachute Battalion

1947-8        Lt Col HB Coxen, DSO MC
1948           Lt Col JH Cubbon, DSO

4th (Volunteer) Battalion The Parachute Regiment (4 PARA(V))

1967-8        Lt Col KC Came, OBE
1968-70      Lt Col DW Callaghan
1970-3        Lt Col LP Weeks
1973-5        Lt Col JA Rymer-Jones
1975-7        Lt Col LJH Kent
1977-80      Lt Col PM Beaumont, MBE
1980-2        Lt Col EC Loden, MC
1982-5        Lt Col JA McGregor, MC
1985-7        Lt Col AH Clark
1987-90      Lt Col BK Martin, OBE
1990-2        Lt Col AWG Snook, OBE
1992-95      Lt Col JC Gallagher
1995-98      Lt Col DC Parkinson
1998-00      Lt Col HM Fletcher
2000-2        Lt Col JD Handford
2002-5        Lt Col GS Orpen-Smellie
2005-8        Lt Col BL Baldwin
2008-10      Lt Col AMC Rogers
2010-13      Lt Col J W Boyd
2013-15      Lt Col G M Timms MC
2015-17      Lt Col J D Loudon
2017- 20     Lt Col AM Wareing

2020-          Lt Col. R Lewin

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