A Tribute to Airborne Facial Hair

Paratrooper on jungle patrol, Borneo.

2 PARA soldier reads a letter from home. Borneo, 1965.

2 PARA main base, Macedonia, September 2001.

Light relief on Norland - 2 PARA's "Intelligence" Officer, Captain Alan Coulson, with Captain Mike Ford.

CSM Jolly Kyrenia Cyprus 1951

Sgt Phil Stout & Lt Murrary McMahon

Sgt Clarke in Mess Kit (2 PARA)

Major Phil Neame c1982

Cpl Joe Lee, 1 PARA, 1976.

Three officers of A Coy, 2nd Parachute Battalion, stand in the Beja area of Tunisia, 1943.

Lt Col Bruce Harvey receiving his DSO from Gen Montgomery, 1944.

Cpl Joe Lee takes the Salute as 1 PARA marches past on the occasion of his leaving the Army after 22 year's service, 1976.

Soldiers 'Yank' and 'Egor' of the Close Observation Point (COP), 2 PARA, Northern Ireland, 1980

'Yank' Thayer standing next to Argentinian Pucara A-527 at Goose Green, blown apart by a Cluster Bomb Unit (CBU)

L/Cpl Bill Bentley MM with parents at Buckingham Palace, 1982

Tom Godwin and Acting TQMS WO2 Dell, Ascension Island, 1982

Phil Neame carrying a Bergen, MV Norland, 1982

Members of 3 PARA with a captured Argentine 105mm Howitzer, Falklands, 14 June 1982.

A fine Mo

Cpl George ‘Geordie’ Guthrie & Pte ‘Bob’ Hilton, 2 PARA, Int Sect, in the rear of a covert van, South Armagh, 1984.

'Bob' Hilton and Mark Chadwick, D Coy, 2 PARA, Sierra Leone, May 2000.

Sgt Bob Hilton, 2 PARA, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2002

Pte 'Eddie' Edwards and the lads in Sangin, Afghanistan, 2006

Another fine Mo

C/Sgt Mark Magreehan 2 PARA Small Strike Team Op Herrick XIII Afghanistan 2011

Members of 2 PARA Small Strike Team Op Herrick XIII Afghanistan 2011

Pte Josh Leakey, date unknown.