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17th Parachute Battalion (United Kingdom)

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later that year. Post war reductions in the army resulted in the battalion being amalgamated with the
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The battalion was raised in August 1945 and assigned to the reformed
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The emblem of the Second World War British Airborne Forces,
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in 1946, keeping the number of the senior battalion.
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53rd (Worcester Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Regiment
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Index


Parachute Regiment
United Kingdom
British Army
Infantry
Airborne forces
Battalion
1st Parachute Brigade
6th Parachute Brigade
Latin
Bellerophon
Pegasus

airborne
infantry
battalion
Parachute Regiment
British Army during the Second World War
1st Parachute Brigade
6th Airborne Division
7th Parachute Battalion
Territorial Army
Durham Light Infantry
6th Parachute Brigade
16th Airborne Division
12th/13th Parachute Battalion
12th (Yorkshire)
13th (Lancashire)
4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment

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