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The 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion was an airborne infantry battalion of the Parachute Regiment, raised by the British Army during the Second World War. The battalion was created in late 1942 by the conversion of the 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment to parachute duties.
F (Sphinx) Parachute Battery: 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: L118 light gun: Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison: 1800: Regular G Parachute Battery (Mercer's Troop) 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery: L118 light gun: Merville Barracks, Colchester Garrison: 1801: Regular I Parachute Battery (Bull's Troop) 7th ...
Men of the 9th Parachute Battalion marching through Amfreville in Calvados later in June. Following the assault of 9th Parachute Battalion just before 05:00 on 6 June 1944, the battalion's survivors, just 75 men of the 150 who had set out, left the battery and headed for their secondary objective, the village of Le Plein. [25]
The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, directed the War Office to investigate the possibility of creating a corps of 5,000 parachute troops. [2] On 22 June 1940, No. 2 Commando was turned over to parachute duties and on 21 November, re-designated the 11th Special Air Service Battalion, with a parachute and glider wing.
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The battery took over gun positions previously occupied by the Regular 31st Hvy Bty and immediately went into action, 'A' Sub-section firing its first round on the evening of 19 May. [4] [5] [7] [11] 9th Heavy Bty formed part of an ad hoc group under Colonel Currie ('Currie's Group') along with 1/1st Warwickshire and 114th Hvy Btys.
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The battery was formed on 1 September 1801 as G Troop, Horse Artillery [1] at Mallow, County Cork, Ireland as a horse artillery battery of the British Army. It was involved in the capture of Buenos Aires in 1806. [2] Memorial stone marking the position where Mercer's troop fought French cavalry on the Waterloo battlefield.