Reg Curtis


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in Catford, South East London, The United Kingdom
September 11, 1920

Died
January 29, 2016

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The Memory Endures is Reg's personal story, available exclusively through Pilots Publishing.

It is believed that Reg Curtis was the last surviving member of the original 1st Parachute Battalion, the first 500 men who volunteered for para commando training in 1940 and had the distinction of being members of No 2 Commando/11th SAS Battalion before their re-designation 1st Parachute Battalion, the founding battalion of The Parachute Regiment. Reg enlisted with the Grenadier Guards in 1937 at the age of seventeen and in 1939-40, as a member of the 1st Guards Brigade, fought in France and Belgium with the British Expeditionary Force. In May 1940 he took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk, and later that year volunteered for commando and para
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