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16th Parachute Brigade Group is formed after the disbandment of 6th Airborne Division with three battalions of the Parachute Regiment and serves primarily in Europe, Iraq and the Canal Zone in Egypt.

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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 of British nationals. The Brigade deployed to Cyprus in June aboard the Aircraft Carriers HMS Triumph and Warrior, the situation ...

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Malaya

The ‘Emergency’ was the unofficial war conducted against Communist infiltration into Malaya between 1948 and 1956. Jungle areas were dominated by Communist Terrorists ‘CTs’ who press-ganged the local Aboriginal tribes for labour. 22 SAS sought t...

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EOKA Cyprus

Extremists supporting ‘Enosis’ Union with Greece on the island of Cyprus in 1955 formed a terrorist organization called EOKA (The National Union of Cypriot Combatants), between 1954-5. Colonel Grivas, a Greek Army officer during the Second World War...

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Direct Enlistment

In order to maintain continuity of airborne service and regularise anomalies existing since the Second World War, direct enlistment into the Parachute Regiment for other ranks was introduced in 1953. This was a notable change of status and terms of serv...

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