Private Peter Mullins

Peter Mullins was called up for his National Service in 1956 and enlisted into The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment at Stoughton Barracks in Surrey. After basic training he volunteered for airborne forces.

After completing P Company at Aldershot and parachute training at RAF Abingdon, he was posted to Signals Company, The 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA).

Peter Mullins commented

‘To this day I so enjoy the comradeship shown when meeting ex-Paras and existing servicemen. Only recently at Birmingham Airport I stopped and spoke to a young Para who was on a spot of leave and had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, after I left him I spent a few minutes in duty free before returning to my wife and youngest daughter at our table, only to find this young men waiting there with them with four glasses of port on a tray, we drank each other’s health. It does not get much better than that.’