The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (3 PARA) The Battalion was formed in September 1941 from volunteers from across the Army at Hardwick in Derbyshire and commanded by Lt Col GW Lathbury.

Coronation Party from the Parachute Regiment parade on HM The Queen's Coronation, 2 June 1953. 3 PARA marching through Aldershot towards the railway station, c1951. A member of 3 PARA on the DZ in Exercise Eagles Flight, 2012. Barrage balloons were used to speed up training jumps and meet the target of 5,000 trained parachutists. A two-day hard fought action developed at the bridge until they were relieved by the sea-landed Durham light Infantry. Spanish airborne medic Lt Jose Maria Rusco Rojas aids a Para on a very windy drop zone, Ex Iberian Eagle, Spain, December 2012. Ministry of Defence and Defence Infrastructure Organisation (2013-09-19).

It became part of the 1st Parachute Brigade, later part of the 1st Airborne Division. Four years later the Battalion took up the Army’s Mountain and Arctic Warfare role with the AMF(L) spending four winters in Norway.

2012-15          Lt Col MW Shervington The battalion was deployed in Northern Ireland 12 times between 1971 and 2004, during the Troubles. 3 PARA Officers at Harbor Club, Kyrenia, Cyprus, 1951.

3 PARA's Camp, Waynes Keep, Nicosia Cyprus, 1951. Soldiers of B Coy, 3 PARA patrolling through undergrowth in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, August 2008. Presentation of Colours, programme of events, 15 July 1974. L/Cpl Andrews, 3 PARA, lays a wreath at Rathfriland for L/Cpl Wilson & Ptes MacAulay and Marshall, 30 Nov 1989. Three men of 3rd Parachute Battalion on King's Way, Haifa. Javelin in firing position, 3 PARA, STANTA, Norfolk, 2013. Soldiers from 3 PARA in VIRTUS equipment, Exercise Griffin Strike, Salisbury Plain, 2016. Ex Anakonda: Members of A Coy 3 PARA, 2 October 2014. David Gent, 3 PARA, Operation Musketeer, 1956.

Soldiers from 3 PARA setting up the Javelin, STANTA, Norfolk, 2013. Lincoln Military Hospital, Memorial to Sgt McKay VC, Mount Longdon, 11 June 2012. 1969 The 3rd Parachute Battalion took part in NATO exercises in Greece. Citation for the award of Mention in Despatches to Major Peter Dennison, Falklands, 1982.

Two members of 3 PARA relaxing, Canal Zone, c1953. The Airborne Shop is the official shop of Support Our Paras (The Parachute Regiment Charity RCN1131977). Members of 3 PARA, Op Herrick XIII, 2011. Paras reign in Spain, Ex Listed Paratrooper, C Coy 3 PARA, November 2016. Centre: LCpl Bayliss and Pte Blackledge, 3 PARA, waiting to jump on 67th Arnhem Anniversary, 2011. Pte Barry (red gloves) in the semi-final of the Army Major Units Boxing Championship, Colchester, 29 February 2012. 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. Longlease Road, Account of 3 PARA's operations against EOKA in Cyprus, 1956. Parachute units were made up of volunteers from infantry regiments. LCpl Paul Muller doing an Ammo State, Sangin 2006.

On Stag duty Kajaki Sofla, Afghanistan, 2008. Group photograph of 8 Platoon, C Coy 3 PARA, Belfast, 1978. 3 PARA veterans unveil the new McKay VC Memorial at Mount Longdon, 23 March 2015. Corporal Jock Kerr, 3 PARA, on guard at a water filtration plant near Suez, Christmas day, 1951.

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