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10 Para (v) (Captain)
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The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA)
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2 Para (Company Sergeant Major)

Operations

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 London’s Metropolitan Police to restore order.

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Falklands (Operation Corporate)

On 2nd April 1982 Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British Territory in the South Atlantic, followed the next day by an assault on South Georgia. The defending Royal Marines detachment at both locations were taken prisoner after fierce firefights.

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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 between Republican IRA and Protestant para-military groups during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ that were to last 37 years.

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Members of Mortars Platoon, Support Company, 2 PARA, Sharjar, 1974.

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Veterans in London for 25th Anniversary of the Falklands Campaign, 2007

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Captain Mick Cotton

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Operations

Anguilla (Operation Sheepskin)

Falklands (Operation Corporate)

Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)

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