3 Para. Patrick Bishop
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3 PARA
Patrick Bishop
‘The following account is based on interviews with the soldiers of the 3 PARA Battle Group. Inquests have not yet been held into many of the deaths reported in these pages. The author has made his best endeavour to report events accurately and truthfully, and any insult or injury to any of the parties described or quoted herein or to their families is unintentional. The publishers will be happy to correct any inaccuracies in later editions.
Afghan identities have been obscured in a few cases in order to protect the individuals and their families.
Table of Contents
3 ‘The Lawless Province of Helmand’
FIRST PLATE SECTION
A Chinook is silhouetted above the Helmand desert.
Taliban fighters. © AP/PA Photos
Now Zad from ANP Hill. © Captain Nick French
Private Damien Jackson during Operation Mutay.
© Private Jamie Stewart Halton
Patrols Platoon during Mutay. © Lance Corporal Lee Hewitson
Looking out over the wadi and bazaar from a Sangin sangar.
Morning for the mortarmen at Kajaki dam.
© Corporal Andrew Evans
Patrols Platoon Commander Captain Mark Swann and Lance
Corporal Andrew ‘Chalkie’ White by their WMIK in Gereshk. ©
Lance Corporal Dave Bradbury
A GPMG gunner engages Taliban fighters from ANP Hill.
© Sergeant Peter White
Private Martin Cork flying back from Mutay.
© Captain Martin Taylor
Captain Hugo Farmer and Corporals Quentin ‘Prig’ Poll, Stephen
‘Hoss’ Cartwright, James Shimmins and ‘Chalkie’ White in the
shade of a stripped-down Pinzgauer. © Captain Martin Taylor
Corporal Tam McDermott on the roof of the Sangin district centre.
© Major Will Pike
Hostile faces in Sangin. © Private Marc Holmes
Private Neil Edwards, Lance Corporal Noel Brooksbank, and
Private Marc Holmes and Alistair Hartley in a Sangin sangar.
© Private Marc Holmes
Lance Corporal Paul Roberts, Corporal Stuart Giles, Sergeant Brian
Reidy and Medical Officer Captain Harvey Pynn.
© Sergeant Dan Jarvie
Soldiers doss down on the floor at the Sangin district centre. ©
Private Marc Holmes
Corporal Mark Wright in the Sangin compound.
© Captain Nick French
Lieutenant Any Mallet leads a patrol into Sangin town centre.
© Corporal Andrew Waddington
Sergeant Dan Jarvie. © Crown copyright
Major Will Pike,