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Lance Corporal served with Support Company Mortars of The 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) from 1965 to 1974.During his Airborne service he took part deployments to the Persian Gulf, Anguilla, Aden and Northern Ireland.

Service History

Operations

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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 ...

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Aden
After receiving news in January 1967 that two terrorist groups - the Federation for the Liberation of South Yemen (FLOSY) and...

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Anguilla (Operation Sheepskin)
Civil strife led to armed insurrection and as the Island was a British Colony. 2 PARA was despatched with 120 members of Lond...

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Persian Gulf
Within five days of the Emir’s request 8,000 British troops had deployed to Kuwait including the carrier HMS Bulwark and a ...
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