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OS John Mallon Hamilton was born on the 5 March 1918, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] Enlisted into The Royal Warwickshire Regiment on the 9 March 1936. [2] He was serving with the 1st Bn, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in India in 1942, when he volunteered for Airborne Forces and joined the 151 Parachute Battalion at New Delhi. He did Parachute Course no 24, which started on the 16 August 1942, and completed the required number of parachute descents to qualify as an Army Parachutist. [3] As a member

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156 Parachute Battalion

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