Stuart Woods | ParaData

1973
Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion (Boy Soldier)
1974
Depot The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces (Recruit)
1975
The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Corporal)
1985
Small Arms School Corps (Warrant Officer Class 1)

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

1975
SAMR

1982

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C Company, 2 PARA, MV Norland, en route to the Falklands, May 1982.

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Stuart Woods on Northern Ireland Border Ops

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Warrant Officer Class 1 Stuart Woods

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Service History

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Falklands (Operation Corporate)

Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)

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Warrant Officer Class 1 Stuart Woods

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