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The drop was conducted under fire and the assault and reduction of the Egyptian coastal defences before the amphibious landings cost the Battalion four killed and three officers and 29 men wounded.ģ PARA formed part of the 16th Parachute Brigade intervention force that was air landed at Amman in Jordan in July 1958 to counter an Egyptian/ Iraqi threat. Counter-terrorism operations followed in the Paphos Forest before returning to the UK in December.ģ PARA conducted the first and last battalion parachute assault since the War when it attacked El Gamil airfield west of Port Said on 5th November 1956, during the Suez Crisis. One of their first acts was to arrest Archbishop Makarios, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus and an EOKA supporter. A new 3 PARA was resurrected in July 1948, formed from the 7th (light Infantry) Parachute Battalion.ĭuring 1951-4 the Battalion conducted internal security operations in the Egypt Canal Zone before deployment on anti-EOKA operations with 1 PARA on the Island of Cyprus in 1956. The remnants of the battalion were withdrawn to England.ĭuring the first post-war deployment in Palestine beginning in 1945 the remnants of 2 and 3 PARA were combined to form the 2/3rd Parachute Battalion, which was disbanded in June 1948. Ground forces from XXX Corps failed to link up.
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The rest were blocked with heavy casualties and fell back to Oosterbeek where the 1st British Airborne Division was destroyed in an epic nine day stand. Part of C Company reached the Arnhem Bridge and joined Lt Col Frost’s 2nd Battalion. By early December they returned to the UK to prepare for the invasion of Europe.Īfter 15 cancelled operations following D-Day the 3rd Battalion dropped at Arnhem on 17th September during the MARKET-GARDEN airborne offensive mounted in Southern Holland. On 9th September the Battalion landed by sea at Taranto Harbour Italy and moved north up the east coast to Barletta, with little opposition. The Battalion lost 250 all ranks killed, wounded and missing, one man in two. A two-day hard fought action developed at the bridge until they were relieved by the sea-landed Durham light Infantry. It was used as a recognition cry when operating in close country and was adopted by the 1st Brigade and the other parachute battalions.ĭuring the parachute assault on the Primosole Bridge in Sicily on 13th July 1943 the 3rd Battalion drop was scattered alongside that of the 1st and 2nd Battalions. The parachute battle cry Waho Mohammed allegedly began with the 3rd Battalion, stemming from this period in North Africa. They were relieved by 1st Army thereafter the battalion fought as line infantry for the rest of the campaign. On the 12th November 1942 the 3rd Battalion captured the German airfield at Bone in Tunisia, the first British Army battalion level parachute operation.
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Before leaving for North Africa with the 1st Parachute Brigade intense parachute and field exercises were conducted to prepare the new battalion for combat. From 500 interviewed by one company only 100 were accepted for training. The Battalion was formed in September 1941 from volunteers from across the Army at Hardwick in Derbyshire and commanded by Lt Col GW Lathbury.