Parachute Regiment

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In this episode we’re exploring the work of army Chaplains assigned to British Airborne units during the war. These men landed with the troops by parachute or glider, often behind enemy lines sharing the dangers and challenges of front line operations through North Africa, Sicily, Italy, D-Day...read more

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HQ Batallón) September 18, 2014

This week marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Market Garden, one of the most heroic failures of the Second World War.

Launched on September 17, 1944, it saw the British 1st Airborne Division – many based in and around Melton – tasked with capturing a bridge in the Dutch city of...read more

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HQ Batallón) August 01, 2014

One of Britain’s last veterans of the Second World War Battle of Arnhem has died at his home in Lutterworth. Lewis “Lew” Kemp, who was 89, had his funeral at Nuneaton crematorium this week. It was 70 years ago, as a 19-year-old member of the Parachute Regiment, that Lew and his comrades had been...read more

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Airborne Chaplains in the Second World War

Arnhem 70th anniversary: Private Jim Duplock recalls the horror of war

Tributes to Arnhem veteran Lew, 89

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