Peter Mark Kirton Thompson

1971
Junior Parachute Company (Junior Infantry)
1973
The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) (Colour Sergeant)
1986
The 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (4 PARA) (Colour Sergeant)
1988
The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Warrant Officer Class 2)
1993
The 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (4 PARA) (Warrant Officer Class 2)

Operations

Falklands (Operation Corporate)

On 2nd April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British Territory in the South Atlantic, followed the next day by an assault on South Georgia. The defending Royal Marines detachment at both locations were taken prisoner after fierce firefights.

Event

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.

Decorations

GSM
SAMR
1978

GOC Commendation and BAR

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Members of 3 PARA, Sudan, 1975.

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Colour Party No 1 and No 2 Guards, D Coy, 2 PARA, 50th Anniversary photo, Red Square Aldershot, 1990.

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Ronald Watts said:

Good friend and a good soldier.
I have known 'Tomo' for 50 years.
Even now he helps his local community by standing for a council seat!

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Warrant Officer Class 1 Peter Mark Kirton Thompson

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Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)

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Warrant Officer Class 1 Peter Mark Kirton Thompson

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Service History

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Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)

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