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Corporal Brian McCombe served with 1 PARA from 1955 to 1958.He took part in the EOKA Campaign and the Suez operation before returning to Aldershot.

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Service History

Operations

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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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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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1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment, D Company, 12 Platoon, 3 Section by Phylis E Fraser, 1950s.
1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment, D Company, 12 Platoon, 3 Section by Phylis E Fraser, 1950s.

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Cpl Brian McCombe, 1 PARA, during Beverley conversion trials, Aldershot, 1957.
Cpl Brian McCombe, 1 PARA, during Beverley conversion trials, Aldershot, 1957.