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Pte Jack Payne served with The South Staffordshire Regiment prior to volunteering for The Parachute Regiment.

He qualified as a military parachutist on course 135 which ran at RAF Ringway from 25 September to 7 October 1944, serving with 13th Parachute Battalion on its subsequent campaigns in North West Europe, the Far East and Palestine.

Pte Payne died in late October 2012.

Profile photo from September 1944

Private Jack Payne

Service History

Operations

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Palestine
Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme d...

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Advance to the Baltic
The airborne soldiers were well suited to exploit the fluid situation that occurred following the collapse of the Rhine barri...

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Far East
The 5th Parachute Brigade was sent to the Far East in preparation for a potential invasion of Japan. However, only the advanc...

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Ardennes
After the Allied landings in Normandy and subsequent advance through France and Belgium, the German Army had succeeded in sta...

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Rhine Crossing (Operation Varsity)
Operation Varsity was the largest single airborne operation in history. On a single day, over 16,000 men were inserted by gli...
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