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James Blunt - champion skier of the Royal Armoured Corps
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Articles from November 2008
- Royal Amoured Corps Veteran shares memories of Dunkirk
- Armistice Day: last surviving veterans honor their fallen comrades
- Missing details of a fallen Soldier
- Armoured Corps veteran makes sky dive
- The Duke of Westminster attends new memorial service
- Service men and women - past and present
- A new generation of rememberance
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12th November 2008
Corps veteran, Jim Long, makes sky dive to raise funds for Royal British Legion Welfare Fund...
On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the First World War, various generations of the British public are taking an interest in remembering those who were lost in the service of their country, as well as those who survive the trauma of warfare.
A 93-year-old World War II veteran who served with the Royal Armoured Corps has completed a parachute jump to help injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Jim Long, a survivor of the Japanese prisoner of war camps, made the tandem jump from 10,000ft (3km) over Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
The veteran, from Brighstone on the Isle of Wight, described the experience as "wonderful".He raised £1,000 for the Royal British Legion Welfare Fund."I'm stone deaf after that," he said on landing after his first ever sky dive."Lovely, wonderful, but it was noisy."Mr Long volunteered for service with his two brothers in 1939 and served as a corporal in the Royal Armoured Service Corps, the very same regiment that figures such as the The Duke of Westminster and Prince Harry have served under.
He has been a keen fundraiser for war veterans and organised for the names of the victims of World War II to be inscribed onto Newport's war memorial."I was not nervous," he said about the jump."They said 'you're mad' when I told them what I wanted to do."But I said I'm going to do it and that was it."His wife Anne, 68, added: "I thought he was joking [when he told me]. But does not joke about things like this."