Nearly 200 soldiers at the British Army’s largest base at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire were presented with shamrocks early today during a parade to mark St. Patrick’s Day before some retuned to training on Exercise Painted Dragoon Three Squadrons from the Royal Dragoon Guards (RDG) received their shamrocks as they marked Oates Day, their Regimental Day, to mark the memory of Captain LEG “Titus” Oates who served in one of their antecedent regiments, the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. Capt Oa

23 Parachute Engineer Regiment has built a 1.7km-long, sand temporary landing zone from scratch at Rock Barracks, in Woodbridge, for MOD testing to prove the A400M’s ability to operate from soft runways. | British Army