1940: The Parachute Corps

1942: The Parachute Regiment - part of Army Air Corps

1949: separated from Army Air Corps

1968: created independent corps.

 

Battle Honours WW2

The Second World War: Bruneval, Normandy Landing, Pegasus Bridge, Merville Battery, Breville, Dives Crossing, La Toucques Crossing, Arnhem 1944, Ourthe, Rhine, Southern France, North-West Europe 1942 ‘44-45, Soudia, Oudna, Djebel Azzag 1943, Djebel Alliliga, El Hadjeba, Tamera, Djebel Dahra, Kef el Debna, North Africa 1942-43, Primosole Bridge, Sicily 1943, Taranto, Orsogna, Italy 1943-44, Athens, Greece 1944-45

Goose Green, Mount Longdon, Wireless Ridge, Falkland Islands 1982, Al Basrah, Iraq 2003

 

Airborne Forces Museum, Aldershot (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)

Ranville Cemetery - Grave of Pte A.E. Johns (aged 16)

Deployment

1st Battalion

1940. No. 2 Independent Company, Commando Forces
trained as parachutists

1940.11 No. 11 Special Air Service Battalion, Commando Forces
organised in Parachute and Glider Wings

1941.09.12 1st Parachute Battalion, Parachute Corps

1942.08.01 1st Battalion, The Parachute Regiment

1944.09.21 battalion lost at Arnhem
1946 reconstituted and affiliated to Brigade of Guards

1948? disbanded
1948.07 re-formed at Lübbecke from 4th/6th Battalion
1949.10 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1951.06 Egypt
1954 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1956.01 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1956.11 Suez 16 Para Bde
1956.11 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1959.03 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1962.05 Bahrain
1963.04 England: Aldershot
1964.01 (Cyprus)
1964.05 England: Aldershot
1965.10 Bahrain
1967.01 Aden Aden Bde
1967.11 England: Aldershot
1970.09 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1972.05 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.11 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1974.08 Berlin Berlin Bde
1976.08 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1976.12 England: Aldershot 6 Field Force
1978.04 (Northern Ireland)
1978.07 England: Aldershot 6 Field Force
1981.03 Scotland: Edinburgh
1981.11 (Northern Ireland)
1982.01 Scotland: Edinburgh
1982.05 (Northern Ireland)
1982.10 Scotland: Edinburgh
1983.06 England: Tidworth ACE MF(L)
1985.01 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1988.07 (Northern Ireland)
1988.11 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1991.02 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1993.06 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1994.05 (Northern Ireland)
1994.11 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1999.04. (Kosovo)
1994.06 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1999.09 England: Aldershot 16 Air Assault Bde
2000.05.08 Sierra Leone
2000.08 England: Dover ACE MF(L)
2001.07 (Northern Ireland)
2002.02? England: Dover ACE MF(L)
2002.04 England: Dover (Connaught Barracks) 16 Air Assault Bde
2003.02 Persian Gulf 16 Air Assault Bde
2003.03 Iraq 16 Air Assault Bde
2003.07 England: Dover (Connaught Barracks) 16 Air Assault Bde
2006 Wales: St. Athan JSFSG


2nd Battalion

1941.09.30 2nd Parachute Battalion, Parachute Corps

1942.08.01 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment

1944.09.21 battalion lost at Arnhem
1946 2nd/3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
reconstituted and amalgamated with 3rd Battalion; affiliated with Yorkshire Brigade, Lancastrian Brigade, and North Irish Brigade

1948? disbanded
1948.06 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
re-formed at Husum from 5th Battalion
1949.11 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1951.06 Egypt
1954 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1956.07.21 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1956.11 (Suez) 16 Para Bde
1956.11 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1957.01 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1958.06 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1958.07.17 Jordan 16 Para Bde
1958.11 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1959.01? England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1961 (Kuwait)
1963.04 Bahrain
1964.04 England: Aldershot
1964.12 (Borneo)
1965.06 England: Aldershot
1966 (Aden)
1966? England: Aldershot
1969 (Anguilla)
1969 England: Aldershot
1971.04 (Northern Ireland)
1971.08 England: Aldershot
1972.02 (Northern Ireland)
1972.06 England: Aldershot
1972.07 (Northern Ireland)
1972.09 England: Aldershot
1973.03 (Northern Ireland)
1973.07 England: Aldershot
1975.05 (Northern Ireland)
1975.09 England: Aldershot
1976.12 (Northern Ireland)
1977.03 England: Aldershot
1977.05 Berlin Berlin Bde
1979.07 Northern Ireland: Ballykinlar 39 Inf Bde
1981.03 England: Aldershot 6 Field Force
1982.01 Aldershot 5 Inf Bde
1982.04 (Falkland Islands)
1982.06 Aldershot 5 Inf Bde
1983.11 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1984.11 (Northern Ireland)
1985.03 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1987.06 Tern Hill 143 Bde
1989.03 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1990.03 (Northern Ireland)
1992.10 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1993.06 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1994 C Coy attached ("Gurkha Reinforcement Company")
1995.07 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1996.10 (Northern Ireland)
1997.04 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1999.01.04 Bosnia
1999.07.16 Aldershot 5 Abn Bde [to 9.99]
2000.04 Colchester 16 Air Assault Bde
2001? C Coy disbanded
2001.08.25 Macedonia
2001? Colchester 16 Air Assault Bde
2002.02 Afghanistan 16 Air Assault Bde
2002.05 Colchester 16 Air Assault Bde
2002.09 (Northern Ireland)
2003.03 Colchester
2003.11 (Iraq) 20 Armd Bde
2004.03 England: Colchester (Meeanee Barracks) 16 Air Assault Bde
2005.10 (Iraq)
2006.04 England: Colchester (Meeanee Barracks) 16 Air Assault Bde

3rd Battalion

1941.09.30 3rd Parachute Battalion, Parachute Corps

1942.08.01 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment


1944.09.21 captured by the Germans at Arnhem
1946 reconstituted and amalgamated with 2nd Battalion to form 2nd/3rd Battalion
1948.07 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
re-formed at Itezehe from 7th Battalion
1949.11 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1951.06 Egypt
1954 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1956.01 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1956.11 [Suez] 16 Para Bde
1956.11 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1956.12 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1958.06 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1958.07.18 Jordan 16 Para Bde
1958.11 Cyprus 16 Para Bde
1958.07 England: Aldershot 16 Para Bde
1961.10 Bahrain
1962.05 England: Aldershot
1964.04 Bahrain
1964? Aden
1965.04 England: Aldershot
1965.10 (British Guiana)
1966.02 England: Aldershot
1971.01 (Northern Ireland)
1971.06 England: Aldershot
1973.03 (Northern Ireland)
1973.07 England: Aldershot
1974.06 (Northern Ireland)
1974.08 England: Aldershot
1977.03 Germany: Osnabrück 5 Field Force, BAOR
1978.02 (Northern Ireland)
1978.06 Germany: Osnabrück 5 Field Force, BAOR
1980.06 England: Tidworth 8 Field Force
1980.12 (Northern Ireland)
1981.04 England: Tidworth 8 Field Force
1982.01 England: Tidworth 5 Inf Bde
1980.12 (Northern Ireland)
1981.04 England: Tidworth 5 Inf Bde
1982.04 (Falkland Islands)
1982.06 England: Tidworth
1983.11 England: Aldershot 5 Inf Bde
1983 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1989.03 Northern Ireland: Holywood 39 Inf Bde
1991.02 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1992.03 (Northern Ireland)
1992.06 England: Aldershot 5 Abn Bde
1995.07 England: Dover ACE MF(L)
2000.08 England: Colchester 16 Air Assault Bde
2001.12 (Northern Ireland)
England: Colchester 16 Air Assault Bde
2003.02 Persian Gulf 16 Air Assault Bde
2003.03 Iraq 16 Air Assault Bde
England: Colchester 16 Air Assault Bde
2005 (Afghanistan)
2005 England: Colchester (Hyderabad Barracks) 16 Air Assault Bde
2006.04 (Afghanistan) 16 Air Assault Bde
2006 England: Colchester (Hyderabad Barracks) 16 Air Assault Bde