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Donald Charles Southey enlisted into The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment before volunteering for airborne forces.Cpl Southey was posted to 2 PARA and served in The Canal Zone, Cyprus, Jordan and Bahrain.

Members of B Company, 2 PARA, Jordan, 1958.

Service History

Operations

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Canal Zone Egypt
This had followed tension in Persia after British alarm at the nationalisation of its oil industry and fears for the safety o...

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Suez (Operation Musketeer)
French paratroopers with part of the 1st (Guards) Independent Parachute Company were to capture two vital bridges leading sou...

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Jordan
An appeal for assistance from King Hussein saw the Brigade, less the 1st Battalion, flown into Amman to secure the airfield a...

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Cyprus (EOKA Campaign)
A continual round of village cordon and search operations, road blocks, curfews, law enforcement and riot control followed. O...
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Members of B Company, 2 PARA, Jordan, 1958.
Members of B Company, 2 PARA, Jordan, 1958.
Members of B Coy, 2 PARA, relaxing, Jordan, 1958.
Members of B Coy, 2 PARA, relaxing, Jordan, 1958.
B Company, 2 PARA, Aldershot, 1954.
B Company, 2 PARA, Aldershot, 1954.
Members of 2 PARA, Amman Jordan, 1958.
Members of 2 PARA, Amman Jordan, 1958.
Wings presentation to Paras of 16th Para Bde at Ismailia, Egypt, July 1953
Wings presentation to Paras of 16th Para Bde at Ismailia, Egypt, July 1953

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Members of B Coy 2 PARA, Jordan, 1958.
Members of B Coy 2 PARA, Jordan, 1958.
Cpl Southey pours tea from a bucket, Cyprus, 1956.
Cpl Southey pours tea from a bucket, Cyprus, 1956.