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Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)
A brief honeymoon as peace keepers between two warring communities locked in civil unrest descended into a virtual civil war ...
Joined the Royal Navy as a junior Seaman Nov 1958. Trained as a radar operator, but realised I would go nuts watching a strobe go round 8 hours a day and puking in a bucket, so in Oct 1960 managed to transfer to the army and my father's regiment, the Welsh Guards. I had already set my sights on joining the Guards Parachute Company and in 1962 arrived at Pirbright.
Service History
- 1960 1st Bn Welsh Guards (Guardsman)
- 1962 No 1 (Guards) Independent Parachute Company (Guardsman)
- 1965 No 1 (Guards) Independent Parachute Company (Lance Corporal)
- 1966 No 1 (Guards) Independent Parachute Company (Lance Sergeant)
- 1967 No 1 (Guards) Independent Parachute Company (Sergeant)
- 1970 No 1 (Guards) Independent Parachute Company (Colour Sergeant)
- 1972 1st Bn Welsh Guards (Colour Sergeant)
- 1973 No 1 (Guards) Independent Parachute Company (Warrant Officer Class 2)
