New museum honours Parachute Regiment
PRINCE Charles will open a new £3m state-of-the-art new museum recording the names and exploits of all the soldiers who served in the Parachute Regiment since World War Two.
The museum at the Imperial War Museum’s site at Duxford, Cambs, will have an online database detailing the regiment’s operations in a series of wars from Arnhem to Afghanistan.
Called ParaData the system has taken several years to collate and includes thousands of names and details of airborne soldiers, including the prince, who is the regiment’s colonel-in-chief...
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The museum at the Imperial War Museum’s site at Duxford, Cambs, will have an online database detailing the regiment’s operations in a series of wars from Arnhem to Afghanistan.
Called ParaData the system has taken several years to collate and includes thousands of names and details of airborne soldiers, including the prince, who is the regiment’s colonel-in-chief...