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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 ...
Philip Hannah enlisted into the Junior Parachute Company (JPC), aged 16 years, and was then posted to 2 PARA after passing out of the Depot.
During his military career Sgt Hannah served in Malaya, Hong Kong, Berlin and Northern Ireland (NI), and spent three and a half years in the Depot and JPC as an instructor.
On the 1971 NI tour he was in the Commanding Officer's Rover Group on the Falls Road when it was ambushed by nationalist terrorists, who shot the tyres out of the Land Rovers, luckily there were no casualties.
Service History
- 1966 Junior Parachute Company (Boy Soldier)
- 1967 The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Private)
- 1968 The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Lance Corporal)
- 1972 AAC Middle Wallop (Acting Sergeant)
- 1973 Depot The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces (Corporal)
- 1976 The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Corporal)
- 1977 The 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) (Sergeant)
- 1979 Recruit Centre Sutton Coldfield (Sergeant)
