Apparently the guys in 2 and 3 Para were sending their mates in 1 Para, white feathers in the post.
Also I’m assuming there was never a time when all three battalions were in Aldershot at the same time?
There was at one point from when 1 Para returned from an 18 month tour of NI until they went to Berlin for to years in 1976. This lasted until 1977 when 2 Para went to Berlin for 2 years followed by two years in Ballykinler, returning to the Shot in 1981 as the lead Parachute Bn. 3 Para went to Osnabruck in 1977 for three years and then went to Tidworth for three years in 1980, moving back to the Shot in 1983. 1 Para stayed in the Shot until 1981 when they moved to Edinburgh.
From 1961 when 2 Para returned from a 2 year tour of Cyprus there were 3 Para battalions in role in 16 Para Bde based in Aldershot. In 1968 it was decided that there would only be one 2 battalions in role with 1 taking part in the normal arms plot. A line infantry battalion joined 16 Para Bde in 1968, with 3 Para going to Malta on a two year accompanied tour. When they returned in 1970 to the Shot, 1 Para moved to Palace Bks, Holywood, NI.
All three battalions were based in Aldershot from 1950 when 16 Parachute Brigade moved from Germany until 1959 when 2 Para moved to Cyprus on an accompanied tour.
Oh so 1 para weren’t really based in the shot during the 80s then?..
Only from 1980-81 and 87-89
Were 3 para in NI from 89-91? The Clegg incident was 1990.
3 Para served in Palace Barracks from 1989-91 at Palace Bks followed by 1 Para from 91-93 and 2 Para from 93-95.
1 Para served 2 tours at Palace Bks, Holywood - 1970-72 & 91-93. 3 Para were the only Para Reg bn to serve one accompanied tour.
ParaQuite a few 1 PARA Int stayed on to be with 2 PARA in BRB - They were very knowledgeable indeed.
I remember a SNCO telling me in the late nineties, that 3 Para Toms married the best of the bunch from the Shankill who came to the Naafi discos. 1 Para Toms married the ones rejected 3Para and 2 Para Toms married the ones rejected by 3Para &1Para.