We’re excited to share some fantastic news!

We have officially launched our YouTube channel, featuring our films about The 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment.

🎬 You can now watch all of our content completely free of charge here:
https://www.youtube.com/@FriendsoftheTenth

We’d really appreciate your support—please take a moment to:
• 👍 Like the videos
• 💬 Leave comments and feedback
• 🔔 Subscribe to the channel

Your support helps us continue sharing the history and legacy of the battalion with a wider audience.

Thank you as always for your continued encouragement.

During WW2 and for Operation Market Garden – ‘The Battle of Arnhem’, the 10th Parachute Battalion together with the 11th and 156 Battalions, formed the 4th Parachute Brigade.

All three battalions were billeted close to one another in Leicestershire. The 10th in and around the villages of Somerby, Burrough on the Hill and Thorpe Satchville. The 156 and 11th Battalions were ultimately stationed in Melton Mowbray.

Although during their training and the run up to Arnhem there were fierce and sometimes violent rivalries, ultimately they fought and sometimes died together in the killing fields of the battle, they were sister battalions – Brothers in Arms.

Next of kin and supporters of the 11th Battalion have recently formed an association and aim to erect a memorial to the unit in Melton Mowbray. If you wish to know more and maybe wish to support them, this is the link to their website –

http://www.rememberthexith.org/

This is their Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/groups/1186022096777878

The 156Bn also have a very active and successful association and excellent website –

https://156para.co.uk

The Lost Footballer of Arnhem and the Extraordinary Story of the Hunt for Relatives

In September 2015, at Arnhem, former 10 PARA (V) member Terry Lowe met Colin Hall, a veteran of the WWII 10th Battalion, Parachute Regiment. During their conversation, Colin shared his moving story of the Battle of Arnhem — and spoke with deep emotion about his best friend and comrade, Tom Farrage, a talented professional footballer who had been killed in action.

Colin never forgot Tom. After the war, he tried in vain to trace his friend’s family, hoping to let them know that Tom had been remembered. Sadly, Colin passed away only a few months after that meeting with Terry, never knowing that his wish would one day be fulfilled.

What followed was an extraordinary journey — the successful search for Tom Farrage’s relatives, decades after his death. The discovery led to a touching tribute by Birmingham City Football Club, the team Tom once proudly represented before enlisting.

This is the story of how a friendship forged in war, and a memory kept alive for more than eighty years, finally found its way home.

CLICK ON THE TWO FILES BELOW FOR THE FULL STORY –

Tom Farrage Article

Military Biography for Tom Farrage

AND THIS IS THE LINK TO THE YOUTUBE FILM BY BIRMINGHAM CITY FOOTBALL CLUB –

https://youtu.be/tqVo1aT4-sc?si=Ct9E6BFLhxgbAhog

We will hold our annual service of Remembrance at the 10th Battalion Memorial, Burrough on the Hill on Sunday 9th November 2025 starting at 10.45hrs.

We will be serving refreshments after the service by courtesy of The Matt Hampson Foundation at the Get Busy Living Centre.

Please come along – ALL ARE WELCOME

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