Original Parachute Jump Instructor APJI Wings Army Cloth Brevet

Removed from uniform of a British Army Assistant Parachute Jump Instructor in the post wartime, in nice condition with small backing cloth loss

. "We ought to have a corps of at least 5,000 parachute troops, including a proportion of Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians, together with trustworthy Norwegians and Frenchmen. I hear that something is being done already to form such a corps but only, I believe, on a very small scale. Advantage of the summer must be taken to train these troops, who can nonetheless play their part meanwhile as shock troops in home defence. Pray let me have a note from the War Office on the subject."

Prime Minister Winston Churchill to General Sir Hastings Ismay
22 June 1940

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