Utrinque Paratus!

1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment is a British realism unit for I44 mod on Arma II. We currently have a domination server up and running so feel free to come on and play.

If you wish to Join the 1st Para just contact one of the members of the unit and they will set you up with teamspeak details and a time to talk with one of the commanding officers. The main playerbase is based in Australia and New Zealand, We accept members from all over the world.

Weekly Operation on Saturday's at 8:00pm AEDT/ 7:00pm AEST/ 10:00pm NZ and training on Wedesnday's at 7:00pm AEDT/ 6:00pm AEST/ 9:00pm NZ.

Regiment Teamspeak Server IP: 108.61.227.20:9387

I44 Domination Server IP: 103.18.206.238:2302



The Battalion formed on 15th September 1941 from the 11th Special Air Service Battalion that had evolved from No 2 Commando.

In November 1942 they sailed to North Africa as part of the newly formed 1st Parachute Brigade under Brigadier Richard Gale; commanded by Lt Col S J L Hill. Their first mission was to capture and hold Beja, an important road junction on the Souk el Khemis Plain. The jump made from American Dakota aircraft ahead of the 1st Army onto open ground at Souk el Arba was successful. For the rest of the campaign the battalion operated as line infantry. It was during this period the Parachute Regiment earned its nick-name, ‘The Red Devils’ from their German opponents.

The Battalion next saw intense action during the 1st Parachute Brigade parachute assault on the Primosole Bridge in Sicily on 13 July 1943. Commanded by Lt Col A S Pearson they were part of a scattered drop on the Catania Plain, with the 2nd and 3rd Battalions and had to fight a desperate battle for possession of the bridge until relieved by 8th Army. This was followed by the sea-borne attack on Taranto Harbour in Italy with the 1st Airborne Division on 11 September 1943. The Battalion probed as far north as Foggia before being withdrawn back to the UK in preparation for D-Day and was based at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire.

On Sunday 17 September 1944 the battalion jumped onto the Renkum Heath west of Arnhem with the 1st Airborne Division during Operation MARKET-GARDEN. During the advance to capture the high ground north of Arnhem Lt Col D Dobie, commanding the Battalion was wounded and taken prisoner. Having sustained severe casualties in the area of Den Brink and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital trying to reach the 2nd Battalion cut-off at the Arnhem Bridge, 1 PARA was forced to retire to the Division perimeter that became besieged at Oosterbeek. Reduced to 100 officers and men they defended with Lonsdale Force, until withdrawing across the Rhine to Driel and then to Nijmegen with the survivors of the 1st Division.

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