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Robert Antony ‘Tony’ Leake, Corporal with the 8th Battalion The Parachute Regiment by Eileen Hogan

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Memorial to 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion, Touffreville, Normandy

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Members of 8th (Midland Counties) Parachute Battalion, Tilshead, circa 1944.

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Group photograph of men from 13th Battalion Warwicks prior to conversion to 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion

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Operation Oder No. 1 for Op Overlord. 8th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment.

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Nine members of 8th Parachute Battalion get ready for cufew patrol in a camp outside Haifa. 1946/47.

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Four men from 8th Parachute Battalion wash and relax in a camp outside Haifa, 1946/47.

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Major General AJH Cassels congratulates the Cross Country Running team of the 8th Parachute Battalion, 1946.

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Men of B Company 8th (Midlands) Parachute Battalion before D-Day, June 1944

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A member of 8th Parachute Battalion lands on a training exercise, Salisbury Plain (?), c1944.

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Members of 8th Parachute Battalion land on a training exercise, Salisbury Plain (?), c1944.

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