by WilliamStark | Jan 20, 2022 | News
Newsletter No.3 Newletter 3 | January 2022 Produced by John O’Reilly, Rosie Anderson, and Will Stark, this is the third newsletter for the 151/156 Parachute Battalion Association. This edition focuses on our annual reunion at Melton Mowbray in October 2021. You...
by WilliamStark | Jan 27, 2021 | News
Newsletter No.2 Newletter 2 | January 2020 Produced by John O’Reilly, Rosie Anderson, and Will Stark, this is the second newsletter for the 151/156 Parachute Battalion Association. This edition focuses solely on the life of Captain Michael Wenner who died on...
by WilliamStark | Nov 6, 2020 | News
Newsletter No.1 Newletter 1 | October 2020 Produced by John O’Reilly, Rosie Anderson and Will Stark, this is the first newsletter for the 151/156 Parachute Battalion Association. It was felt that during this rather strange year, a year in which we couldn’t...
by WilliamStark | Oct 24, 2020 | News
John Jeffries Obituary John Jeffries: 22nd March 1922 – 30th August 2020 John Jeffries passed away at 9.45pm on Sunday, 30th August aged 98. John parachuted onto the Ginkelseheide near Arnhem on 18th September 1944. He was under fire the moment he left his...
by WilliamStark | Oct 3, 2020 | News
Colonel John Llewllyn Waddy Obituary COMMANDER OF B COMPANY, 156 PARACHUTE BATTALION AT ARNHEM. Recommended the use of helicopters for swift movement of troops 20 years ahead of its time Major John Waddy, 1944 (John Waddy) COLONEL JOHN WADDY, who died on...
by WilliamStark | Jun 17, 2020 | News
Colonel John Waddy OBE turns 100 COLONEL JOHN WADDY OBE, CO OF B COMPANY, 156 PARACHUTE BATTALION AT ARNHEM. At home, in Somerset, John celebrates his 100th birthday today. All present sang ‘For he’s a Jolly Good Fellow’, and then the Lieutenant-General Sir...
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