News contributor and author of 'Notes From A Small Military'
Joined August 2013
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If you were born on or before 2 Sep 1929, passport renewal is free…
There’s something to look forward to. 😂
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14 Jun 82 - Ross Rodad West, Port Stanley
The war is over. @2PARA_HQ
Grubby, exhausted, alive.
My Platoon HQ
Always grateful that I survived when others did not, and that I fought with such magnificent soldiers.
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Jun 13
13 June 82 - battle of Wireless Ridge
@2PARA_HQ fight the closest thing to an All Arms battle - and well resourced.
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12 Jun 82 @2PARA_HQ arrive at Furze Bush Pass after trekking thro the night & hearing the volumetric noise of battle of @3PARA on Mt Longdon.
The sharp eyed will spot a CVR(T) at the base of the middle rocks - a battle winner in one night's time
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Jun 11
The last photo
11 Jun 82 @2PARA_HQ fly fwd fm Fitzroy to Bluff Cove Peak in the Falklands. Dave Parr (R) wounded slightly at Goose Green returns cos ‘matehood’ means he doesn’t want to let anyone down.
He is KIA on the night of 13 June
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Jun 11
His story and the sociology of @TheParachuteReg is told by his academic niece, Helen Parr in the excellent award winning book ‘Our Boys’
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Jun 11
Renewed military ‘activity’ in Iran is often unrelated to operational and strategic ‘outcomes’.
And that’s the problem for the US.
As Gen Mattis used to say, ‘you need both bookends of war: how it ends is more important than how it starts”
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Jun 8
Many thanks to the Ents staff and audiences on the P&O Ventura N611 @pandocruises for allowing the stories of the greatest generation to be kept alive
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Jun 7
Spotted Spiderman in Lisbon yesterday.
He's put on a bit of weight from all those delicious Portuguese custard tarts...
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Jun 6
'Had you known our boy
You would have loved him too
"Glen his parateoop dod
Was killed with him'
Both KIA together on 6 June 44
9th Parachute Battaluon
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Jun 5
Remembering Flt Lt John Saville RCAF
Killed in action 5 June 44 in a pre-cursor op to D Day
Shot down by flak after attacking a Freya radar off Guernsey
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Jun 1
A reminder (from 2017) that air superiority and the dropping of bombs does not lead to a strategic outcomes alone.
#IranWar
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May 29
Hail to Chris Keeble - the architect of this.
War is a dung heap, but it is a dung heap on which grow some remarkable blooms - and his humanity was part of that bloom.
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May 28
Mill Life
Once the busiest heli-terminal in Europe
Forever known to many by the trigram BBK
South Armagh NI
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May 27
Camilla Creek - 27 May 82 - day before Goose Green
We do not join battle afraid
We do not ask favours or indulgence
We do not know or seek what our fate will be
We ask only this
That if die we must
That we die as men would die
Without complaining
Without pleading..
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May 24
The bleak landscape: @2PARA_HQ are degrading.
I like this photo as it’s indicative of, for the army, the last analogue war. For example, Field Artillery Computer Eqpt (FACE) quickly reverted to FAME - manual eqpt.
The Falklands war of 82 was a harsh environment
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May 23
Saddened to inform of the death of Lt Alex Ward @2PARA_HQ class of 82
He is shown here poking his head to the left of the bride at a v hastily arranged pre-war wedding.
RIP Alex.
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May 21
44 years ago - @2PARA_HQ landed at night on the Falklands to move to Sussex Mountain to ‘hold’ that feature prior to a breakout.
A very physically demanding night made worse by constant taking of cover due to ‘air raid warning RED’ messages.
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May 14
Another new PM this year would put the ‘turnover rate’ as the highest since William IV (1830-37). He had Grey, Melbourne, Wellington and Peel - all still well known for one reason or another.
Anyone for tea, a trip to New South Wales, Waterloo or to a police station?
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