Notes From a Small Military - I Commanded and Fought with 2 Para at the Battle of Goose Green. I was Head of Counter Terrorism for the M.O.D. This is my True Story. Major-General Chip Chapman
new possessions on their sweaters. It was remarkable how many sewed them on the left arm – the wrong arm. They were very much still ‘crows’: those with no experience and novices.
I now had my beret and my wings. I was about to lead the lions of 6 Platoon, B Company, 2 PARA who already had their berets and wings, and by the end of the Falklands campaign in June 1982, I might even class myself as one of that breed. I would then be a lion in a den of Daniels. I would absolutely know the real meaning behind Talleyrand’s saying that he feared one lion leading 100 sheep more than he feared one sheep leading 100 lions. I make no apologies for repeating that from the opening chapter.4a
3 All of these were written in my diary. Shaw’s quote is from Man and Superman. We wanted to be the latter.
4 Richard Hillary was also included as a subject in a chapter in Sebastian Faulks’ book The Fatal Englishman. The army equivalent of this is probably Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon. My naval colleagues have not come up with a satisfactory answer to their seminal work, although one told me that the seminal RAF book is probably The Brake Fluid Manager’s Handbook.
4a I am related by marriage to the famous comedian, the late Ronnie Barker. His sister is my Aunt Eileen who married my mother’s brother, Uncle Raymond. I think he would have rather liked my use of the English language in this section.
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