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Sullivan, William James - P16
2022-11-20T11:24:04Z
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<div><person I=16>William James Sullivan</person> better known as Bill Sullivan was born on Oct 7th 1912 in London as the fourth son of <person I=25>Thomas Sullivan</person> and <person I=24>Margaret Beresford</person>.<br />
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Thomas was a printers assistant while Margaret took care of the 8 boys and 1 girl at 39 Balmore Street Highgate. <br />
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When Bill was 15 he worked as a page boy at a rehearsal room and he had seen Charles B. Cochran and other great producers of the time. At this age he bumped into his old school pal Frank Pope, who he told about his exciting life with hunderds of Glamour Girls.<br />
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Frank went along to see the gentleman in charge of the rehearsal rooms, Mr. Summers Brown, who controled a circuit of theatres such as The Charles Gulliver group, Greater London Theatres and Cinemas Ltd. These houses included the Chapman Grand, Kilburn Empire, Islington Empire, Ilford Hippodrome, Camberwell Palace and Hammersmith Palace. As Bill anticipated, Frank Pope got the job.<br />
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In the meanwhile Bill establishing himself as a performer. He played in Tom Arnold's "This Year of Grace" and got a film contract with Geoffrey Benstead (possibly in Stepping Stones 1931).<br />
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"Talkies" (thats how they used to call movies) came and the theatre business slumped. Frank was transfered to the rehearsal rooms, taking over the booking in that department. That is where Frank met Wallace Parnell who mentioned that he needed a boy for the general office. Frank applied and got the job at age 18 and learned everything about the theatre world; How big shows are mapped out, how they are staged etc etc all under the guidance of one of the finest producers in the country. The company were the first to put on Non-Stop Revue at the old Prince of Wales and the Piccadilly and presented Revue and Grand Guignol at the Duke of York's.<br />
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Decline in the theatres made Frank take a job at a shoe factory as a clerk, but he was only holding that job for 1 day as Hyman Zahl, who was in partnership with Michael Lyon, offered him a job in his office. Later Hyman Zahl went into partnership with Jack Hylton and Frank Pope joined him on this venture. Things didnt go so well, so Frank persuaded Hyman Zahl to start on his own. he did and Frank was installed as his manager.<br />
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In the meanwhile Bill Sullivan had been with Debroy Summers and his band, but Bill was looking for a new challenge. Frank set Bill up as a return favor with Cecil Braham.<br />
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While being on tour with Hyman Zahl, Frank Pope met F. J. Butterworth. He gave Frank the big chance in life by giving all his booking arrangements to Frank. the second War arrived, with the famous theatre shut down. Hyman Zahl suggested to rejoin forces with Michael Lyon. F.J. Butterworth then suggested to open an office on his own in order to concentrate on the booking for the F.J.B Circuit. F.J.B Circuit had taken over 3 additional theatres ( Camden Town Bedford, Bristol Empire and Boscombe Hippodrome) and the chain was increasing as time went on.<br />
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And so it all started. Frank started the "Frank Pope Agency" later called "National Theatrical Variety Agency (NTVA)". However Frank got the call-up and he found it difficult to find someone to take over whilst he was in the forces. Luckily he thought of Bill Sullivan. Bill was turned down for militairy service due to health reasons, so Frank brought him in as manager and between the 2 of them they build up the largest independent circuit in the country.<br />
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Bill and Frank stayed together until Bill died on 9 Dec 1974.<br />
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Some of the famous people they managed or booked were:<br />
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* Phyllis Dixey - Frank Pope spotted her in the chorus, knowing she was destined for bigger things. Her career was started by Frank Pope in a small show entitled "Footlight Inn", which they produced at the Savoy, Scunthorpe in 1940.<br />
* George Formby<br />
* Sandy Powell<br />
* Lucan and McShane<br />
* Alfred Thripp - B.B.C famous blind pianist and vocalist<br />
* Two Leslies<br />
* Cavan OÇonnor<br />
* Jenny Howard<br />
* Rita Atkins<br />
* Nellie Wallace<br />
* Ella Shields<br />
* Arthur Tracy "Street Singer"<br />
* Morecambe and Wise<br />
* Dame Shirley Bassey<br />
* Hylda Baker<br />
* Trixie Mason<br />
* Terry Doogan<br />
* Jimmie Smith - Bill Sullivan discovered him at the Elmar Hotel Music Hall in Bognor Regis. Jimmie became a drummer at the London Palladium with the Ted Heath orchestra<br />
* Terry and Adela Cantor<br />
* Max Miller - The Cheeky Chappie<br />
* Ken Barnes<br />
* Billy O'Sullivan - Ireland's Personality Comedian<br />
* Laurel en Hardy<br />
* Walter Donaldson - a Scottish professional snooker and billiards player<br />
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Shows they produced:<br />
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* Those were the days by kind permission of Lew Lake<br />
* Our Victory Production - Written devised by Bill Sullivan<br />
* Funzapoppin - Witten devised by Bill Sullivan<br />
* Frank Pope's Cinderella - Bill Sullivan was Buttons in this show, which was held at the Bedford Theatre Camden Town 1946-1947<br />
* The Gandy Bros at the Sussex Club in Elmar Sands, direct from the Garrick Theatre London.<br />
* Old Time Music Hall - written by Bill Sullivan<br />
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According to Mister John Butterworth “Billy Sullivan and Frank Pope were both theatrical agents who worked with Frederick Butterworth. In the early years they worked with acts including Shirley Bassey and Morecambe and Wise. The theatre industry declined in the 1950’s and 1960’s and after they finished being theatrical agents Frederick Butterworth invested in hotels and kept some of his theatres. Billy and Frank worked for Frederick whenever they could.”<br />
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According to Best of British Magazine ” Frank Pope (agency) supplied acts to the Moss Empires circuits, owners of 24 large theatres, including the prestigious London Palladium and the infamous Glasgow Empire. Pope saw Morecambe and Wise in 1950, and took them on to busier times with appearances on variety shows, summer seasons, pantomimes and radio. Regular guest appearances on the pianobashing Winifred Atwell Show eased them back onto the screen, but they were determined to have their own show. One casualty of this determination was Frank Pope. His nine years of dedication was much appreciated, but he just didn’t have the contacts and wherewithal to progress the boys’ television career.”<br />
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Cooper, John - P11683
2021-12-15T13:19:14Z
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Cooper, John - P11683
2021-12-15T12:36:43Z
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Ford, William Alexander - P13151
2021-12-02T13:44:00Z
<p>Sullivan: Created page with "<person I=13151>William Alexander Ford</person> WW1 12/2698<br> Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F.<br> Died 25 Sep 1916 at A.D.S.20I Fild. Amb. in the field France<br> Dantzig Alley..."</p>
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Wood, Henry William Carmichael - P13265
2021-11-26T12:07:10Z
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McCauley, John Glen - P13242
2021-11-21T11:29:28Z
<p>Sullivan: Created page with "<person I=13242>John Glen McCauley</person> 118987<br> R.A.F 271Sqdn<br> Died 19 December 1942 Lost Over the Bay of Biscay During A Transit Flight From Portreath to Gibraltar..."</p>
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Anderson, Robert John - P13246
2021-11-20T11:23:02Z
<p>Sullivan: Created page with " right <person I=13246>Robert John Anderson</person> aka Bob Anderson is born in Wanganui, New Zealand but came to the U.K. in May/ Ju..."</p>
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<person I=13246>Robert John Anderson</person> aka Bob Anderson is born in Wanganui, New Zealand but came to the U.K. in May/ June 1967 on board the liner Achille Lauro. My ship was one of the last to navigate the Suez Canal before the outbreak of the six-day war between Egypt and Israel. I then settled in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire where I still live with my wife Elizabeth (Liz). Our three children, their spouses and five grandchildren also reside in the U.K.<br />
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He has been doing ancestry research for some years and even made a website about his family history just as this website. https://www.bobanderson.co.uk<br />
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==DNA==<br />
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Both Bob and myself as well as the cousin of my father did a DNA test on Ancestry and we are all 3 a match. But Bob had no ancestor last names that matched ours. However i knew that my 3rd great grandfather <person I=7548>James Sullivan</person> used the lastname Ford on several census. With this thought in mind, i looked at Bob's family tree on Ancestry and found an anchestor called Henry James Ford in Bobs tree. This ment that Henry James could be a son of James Sullivan and Ann Johnson and carried the name Ford when Henry moved to New Zealand. So i contacted Bob via Ancestry and told him i might have found a breakthrough. We messaged some back and forth and we came to the conclusion that <person I=7619>Henry James</person> was indeed the son of James Sullivan. <br />
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Bob is my 3rd cousin once removed and is confirmed via DNA testing.<br />
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2021-11-20T10:45:08Z
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Faull, William Thomas - P13158
2021-11-13T12:20:55Z
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2021-11-13T11:35:53Z
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Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T12:47:07Z
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
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<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
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Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
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Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
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After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
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Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
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==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
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==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
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The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
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The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
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==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
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...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
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'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
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D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
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Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
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==Memorial==<br />
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<gallery><br />
Aldershot.jpg|Headstone of Paul Steven Sullivan<br />
Memorial.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Aldershot<br />
Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands<br />
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==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T10:45:38Z
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
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<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
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Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
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After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
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Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
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==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Memorial==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
Aldershot.jpg|Headstone of Paul Steven Sullivan<br />
Memorial.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Aldershot<br />
Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Youtube==<br />
<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=85
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T10:28:50Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Memorial */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Memorial==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
Aldershot.jpg|Headstone of Paul Steven Sullivan<br />
Memorial.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Aldershot<br />
Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
__NOTOC__</div>
Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=84
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T10:27:24Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Memorial */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Memorial==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
Aldershot.jpg|Caption1<br />
Memorial.jpg|Caption2<br />
Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands.jpg|Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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2021-05-13T10:26:50Z
<p>Sullivan: </p>
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<div>Plaque on 2 Para Memorial at Goose Green, Falkland Islands</div>
Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=82
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T10:23:39Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Memorial */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Memorial==<br />
<br />
<gallery><br />
Aldershot.jpg|Caption1<br />
Memorial.jpg|Caption2<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=File:Memorial.jpg&diff=81
File:Memorial.jpg
2021-05-13T10:22:20Z
<p>Sullivan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Memorial</div>
Sullivan
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File:Aldershot.jpg
2021-05-13T10:20:55Z
<p>Sullivan: </p>
<hr />
<div>Aldershot</div>
Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=79
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T10:12:36Z
<p>Sullivan: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Memorial==<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=78
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T10:00:44Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Battle of Goose Green */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
'''[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses]''': <br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=77
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T09:57:32Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses] <br><br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
* [https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 Eye witness reports]<br />
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Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=76
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T09:57:03Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Battle of Goose Green */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses] <br><br><br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
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Sullivan
http://sullivan.be/wiki/index.php?title=Sullivan,_Paul_Steven_-_P13144&diff=75
Sullivan, Paul Steven - P13144
2021-05-13T09:56:35Z
<p>Sullivan: /* Battle of Goose Green */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Remember]][[Category:People]]<br />
[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
[https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/past-catalogues/lot.php?auction_id=567&lot_uid=383787 From eye witnesses] <br />
"News of the death of Colonel H Jones during a heroic charge at Darwin Ridge had filtered through to all by now and the respective Company Commanders, although now under the able command of former 2 i/c Major Chris Keeble, would be required to press home the attack with an unfamiliar degree of autonomy. Boca House was secured at 13.47 local time, around the same time that A Company had overcome the defenders on Darwin Hill. The next immediate targets were the the school and the airfield, the battle for which was confused and hard fought:<br />
‘Major Neame then pushed us straight on towards the schoolhouse at Goose Green. 11 Platoon opened fire on the little house first. The trouble was, they used 66s (anti-tank rockets) and phosphorus grenades which caused a fire, which didn’t give them very much cover. Then our C Company came down, ready to go in. My platoon was tasked to go up the track and give covering fire on the schoolhouse and also cover behind it to get anybody that tried to withdraw. The plan was to bottle them in there.<br />
One of the rear sections saw some white flags waving near the airfield and he reported this to our Platoon Commander, Mr Barry, who said to me. “I’ll go forward and take the surrender, you look after these two sections.” So I moved where I could control both sections and see what was going on. I told the radio operator so that he could get into contact with the Company Commander about what was happening, and the runner as protection.<br />
Mr Barry went over the rise with his men and I watched them move towards two Argentinians who had come forward with their hands in the air. The others were sitting behind them on the floor with their hands up. Because I had to watch my own section I had to keep my eyes in both directions as I was a bit concerned about Mr Barry going forward. I saw him talking to two Argentinians, who seemed to be worried about the firing still going on at the schoolhouse. Then for some reason, Mr Barry put a rifle against a fence. Suddenly, a burst of fire, probably from someone who wasn’t aware that a surrender was taking place, came whistling over the top. The Argentinians who’d been sitting there reacted immediately by picking up their weapons and firing. Mr Barry was killed instantly. Knight, the radio operator, killed two with his SMG but Corporal Smith, who was trying to give covering fire with a 66 and CPC Sullivan were also killed. Shevill was wounded in the shoulder and the hip. There was now an awful lot of firing going on.<br />
As the senior person there I was doing the chasing about. I saw some of my lads hit the deck because of the volume of fire that was coming our way, but I got a grip on them, got them up and firing. I was covering a lot of ground, but that’s my job, that’s what I’m paid for. I got across another section and picked up a machine gun and knocked off three Argies with a couple of bursts each. Then, as I moved again, I took out two more. We moved forward and took their position and dealt with Shevill who was badly hurt. He crawled back into cover and so did Roach, who shouted that he thought he’d been hit. I shouted back that he would known if he’d been hit! However he had had the arse shot out of his trousers. Roach, with the help of Wilson, then gave first aid to Shevill while still under heavy fire. Unfortunately we couldn’t get him out for five hours.<br />
There were so many sensations at that time that I had to think fast and hard because everything was changing from second to second - there were rounds going everywhere. I didn’t have time to be frightened. When Mr Barry was killed there was a lot of anger; the thing was, to kill them. So for each one I knocked down, I thought, ‘Well that’s another.’ The thing was to kill them as fast as we could, it was just whack, whack, and the more I knocked down the easier it became, the easier the feeling was - I was paying them back. The feeling was anger, a mixture of both anger and sadness - sadness because three good blokes should die like that.’ (ibid)<br />
<br />
D Company Commander, Major Phillip Neame, gave his own account of this phase of the battle, adding further detail and giving particular praise to Meredith’s professionalism and gallantry:<br />
‘Just as we were about to assault the school, I got news that Jim Barry, the other platoon Commander, had been shot when he had gone up to take a surrender under a white flag. He and half the section had been shot down. It was such a tragic waste of life. After a little deliberation as to where my priorities were, I left Pete Adams to command the assault on the school and I went back to join 12 Platoon to find that Sergeant Meredith by this stage had got the situation firmly under control. His platoon was busily knocking shit out of the Flagpole Position with 66 rocket launchers and machine guns. We didn’t know who had been killed or injured with Jim Barry, but certainly some of the injured were trying to get back. There were one or two very brave people there - Shevill who was very badly shot managed to pull himself back about 200 yards, finding his own cover, refusing help from others who would have had to expose themselves, and a couple of others who performed extraordinarily well for just private soldiers in organising themselves and getting their injured companions back under covering fire from Meredith and his crew. Meredith, of course, held it all together, and made sure the platoon continued to work together - a really solid number, hard as nails and with the ability to think. He never appeared fussed which is what I think really helped at this time, at least for his blokes...Carter and Meredith, between them, probably saved the lives of the other three involved in the incident.’ (Major Phillip Neame’s account of the action at Goose Green published in Above All, Courage by Max Arthur, refers)<br />
<br />
Amid sporadic exchanges of fire and with light beginning to fade after nearly 36 hours of continuous fighting, most of the Argentines now began to make their way into Goose Green itself to find themselves besieged in a situation that was becoming serious. Meredith picks up his account once more as the Argentines make one final air attack on the British positions before Keeble’s intelligent use of prisoners of war to deliver proposed terms leads to the surrender of the garrison:<br />
‘They then attacked us with a Pucará that dropped napalm. It just missed the Sergeant-Major’s party with the prisoners and wounded. It also missed a big ammunition dump - so we were lucky...We shot the Pucará down and captured the pilot. (He was one of the ones they sent in for the surrender, which they did the next day.)<br />
We moved into Goose Green the next morning and dug in...I had mixed feelings about the battle but it felt good to have won. Then there was the shock of seeing all those hundreds of Argentinians at the surrender. I couldn’t believe it. We’d attacked with a battalion, which was about 400 to 500 men, and they’d had 1200. In the end we sent one platoon of twenty-four men in to guard them. I felt we’d won a strategic battle - if we’d by-passed Goose Green we’d have left 1200 men there with a usable airfield, and that could have later been a big thorn in our side. They could have caused a lot of damage from there.’<br />
"<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Goose_Green#cite_ref-91 Battle of Goose Green wikipedia]<br />
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
Private John Graham, from Lieutenant Chris Waddington's No. 11 Platoon, claimed that Lieutenant Barry and Corporal Sullivan, during a local truce, went forward to accept the Argentine surrender at the airfield and that the defenders suddenly opened fire without warning, killing Barry and wounding Sullivan, with one Argentine crawling forward to Sullivan and shooting him at point-blank range:<br />
<br />
...I saw the white flag incident; I was in 11 Platoon. We were going up the hill, and the flag went up. The officer [Barry] called the sergeant [sic] and then got halfway up the hill. Bang! They let rip into them, Killed them. One guy [Corporal Paul Sullivan] was hit in the knee, and one of the bastards came forward and shot him in the head. He moved forward out of his position and shot him.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]<br />
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]<br />
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br />
==Battle of Goose Green==<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
* http://www.doyle.com.au/Awen/summer2014/pt4.html<br />
* [https://www.parachuteregiment-hsf.org/Paul%20Steven%20Sullivan.html The Parachute Regiment website]<br />
* [https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/paul-s-sullivan Para Data Website]</div>
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA<br><br>LEST WE FORGET]]<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]</div>
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[[File:Sullivan, Paul Steven.jpg|thumb|right|Paul Steven Sullivan <br>24353770 Corporal<br> 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA]]<br />
24353770 Corporal<br><br />
The Parachute Regiment<br><br />
Died 28 May 1982 Falkland Islands<br><br />
Military Cemetery Aldershot<br><br />
<br />
LEST WE FORGET<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]</div>
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<br />
24353770 Corporal<br><br />
The Parachute Regiment<br><br />
Died 28 May 1982 Falkland Islands<br><br />
Military Cemetery Aldershot<br><br />
<br />
LEST WE FORGET<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]</div>
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<br />
24353770 Corporal<br><br />
The Parachute Regiment<br><br />
Died 28 May 1982 Falkland Islands<br><br />
Military Cemetery Aldershot<br><br />
<br />
LEST WE FORGET<br />
<br />
<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
<br />
Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
<br />
Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
<br />
After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
<br />
Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
<br />
==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
<br />
==Decorations==<br />
The General Service Medal (GSM)<br><br />
[[File:General Service Medal.png|left]]<br><br><br><br><br />
<br />
The South Atlantic Medal (SAMR)<br><br />
[[File:South Atlantic Medal w rosette.png|left]]<br><br><br><br><br />
<br />
The Elizabeth Cross - Granted to the next of kin of servicemen and women who died during operations or were killed as the result of terrorist action since the Second World War <br><br />
[[File:The Elizabeth Cross.jpg|left]]</div>
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24353770 Corporal<br><br />
The Parachute Regiment<br><br />
Died 28 May 1982 Falkland Islands<br><br />
Military Cemetery Aldershot<br><br />
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LEST WE FORGET<br />
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<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
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Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
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Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
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After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
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Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
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==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
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==Decorations==<br />
* The General Service Medal (GSM)<br />
* The South Atlantic Medal<br />
* The Elizabeth Cross<br />
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24353770 Corporal<br><br />
The Parachute Regiment<br><br />
Died 28 May 1982 Falkland Islands<br><br />
Military Cemetery Aldershot<br><br />
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LEST WE FORGET<br />
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<person I=13144>Paul Steven Sullivan</person> (Sully) was born on June 15th 1954 in Northamptonshire as the son of Raymond A. Sullivan and Beryl A. Sullivan (nee Spence).<br />
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Paul worked with his dad Raymond, who was a builder before joining up at the age of 19 years old.<br />
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Paul met his wife <person I=13145>Shirley A. Lampey (Bette)</person> at the end of his first week of basic training in Aldershot at the Army and Navy, where he was doing his QA training. Paul and Bette married in 1977 in Hendon, Greater London, United Kingdom and they had a daughter <person I=13146>Alesia Fay</person> ( born 1979 in Aldershot). When Alesia was born he was away serving in the jungle in Brunei.<br />
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After completing P Coy and parachute training, he became a member of 12 Platoon, D Company, 2PARA. <br />
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Paul Steven Sullivan died on May 28 1982 during the Falklands campaign along with Lieutenant Barry whilst attempting to take an Argentine surrender. He is now buried at the Military Cemetry Aldershot.<br />
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==Operations==<br />
* Brunei<br />
* Northern Ireland (Operation Banner)<br />
* Falklands (Operation Corporate)<br />
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==Decorations==<br />
* The General Service Medal (GSM)<br />
* The South Atlantic Medal<br />
* The Elizabeth Cross</div>
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24353770 Corporal<br><br />
The Parachute Regiment<br><br />
Died 28 May 1982 Falkland Islands<br><br />
Military Cemetery Aldershot<br><br />
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Sullivan, John Lawrence - P7529
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== SQUIRT LABELLED "DANGEROUS" ==<br />
<big>'''Ice-cream dealer burglary charge'''</big><br><br><br />
'''A SMALL SQUIRT labelled "Dangerous--handle with care," a jemmy, a torch, eight keys and a pair of gloves were exhibited on the sollicitors' table at Marylebone Court when John Lawrence Sullivan, 24, ice-cream dealer, of Balmore Street, Hightgate, was charged on remand with burglariousty breaking into a flat in Lancaster Terrace, Paddington, with intent to commit a felony; possessing housebreaking implements by night and possessing an offensive weapon (a squirt containing ammonia solution).'''<br><br><br />
Mrs. Louisa Baker, caretaker, said at about 10.5 p.m. on May 5, she went to the flat, the occupants of which were away. She heard a noise like a man tapping a pipe on a table. She went to the flat below and phoned the police.<br><br />
Constable Stacey said he saw Sullivan come from the rear window of the flat and run up the fire escape. He caught him after he had thrown away a jemmy. On Sullivan were a torch, eight keys, and a squirt -- containing a liquid smelling of ammonia. Asked what the "squirt gun" was for, he said, "I use it upon the dogs in joints if they give me any trouble."<br><br />
A pane of glass had been removed from the kitchen door at the flat and there were jemmy marks on inner doors.<br><br />
Cross-examined, the Constable said he didnt know that the squirt might be used on a lady's hair or for squirting ammonia on the plugs of cars.<br><br />
Sullivan was sent for trail at the Sessions. He pleaded not quilty to the charges.<br />
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Marylebone Mercury - Saturday 29 May 1948<br><br />
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'''AMMONIA PISTOL ON SUSPECT'''<br />
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When arrested on a charge of housebreaking, a musician was found to be in possession of a toy pistol wth a rubber bulb attached, in which there was a strong solution of ammonia.<br />
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This was stated at the County of London Sessions, on Friday, when John Lawrence Sullivan, 25, of Highgate, pleaded quilty to breaking and entering the house of Sidney Camber, of Lancaster Terrace, Bayswater, with intent to steal; possessing housebreaking implements by night -- a jemmy, torch, eight keys and a pair of gloves -- and being armed with an offensive weapon, a squirt gun with ammonia solution, with intent to break and enter Mr. Camber's house.<br />
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Called for the defence, Dr. Frost, of Wimpole Street, W, said that he found Sullivan in a state of depression bordering upon insanity. Explaining the "squirt gun," he said he used it upon the blonde hair of the woman with whom he was living and also to clean the plugs of his car. He considered that Sullivan would respond to treatment in a private nursing home or mental home rather than hospital treatment in prison.<br />
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Mr. Eustace Fulton, the chairman, passed sentence of 15 months' imprisonment.<br />
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Kensington Post - Saturday 19 June 1948<br />
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== SQUIRT LABELLED "DANGEROUS" ==<br />
<big>'''Ice-cream dealer burglary charge'''</big><br><br><br />
'''A SMALL SQUIRT labelled "Dangerous--handle with care," a jemmy, a torch, eight keys and a pair of gloves were exhibited on the sollicitors' table at Marylebone Court when John Lawrence Sullivan, 24, ice-cream dealer, of Balmore Street, Hightgate, was charged on remand with burglariousty breaking into a flat in Lancaster Terrace, Paddington, with intent to commit a felony; possessing housebreaking implements by night and possessing an offensive weapon (a squirt containing ammonia solution).'''<br><br><br />
Mrs. Louisa Baker, caretaker, said at about 10.5 p.m. on May 5, she went to the flat, the occupants of which were away. She heard a noise like a man tapping a pipe on a table. She went to the flat below and phoned the police.<br><br />
Constable Stacey said he saw Sullivan come from the rear window of the flat and run up the fire escape. He caught him after he had thrown away a jemmy. On Sullivan were a torch, eight keys, and a squirt -- containing a liquid smelling of ammonia. Asked what the "squirt gun" was for, he said, "I use it upon the dogs in joints if they give me any trouble."<br><br />
A pane of glass had been removed from the kitchen door at the flat and there were jemmy marks on inner doors.<br><br />
Cross-examined, the Constable said he didnt know that the squirt might be used on a lady's hair or for squirting ammonia on the plugs of cars.<br><br />
Sullivan was sent for trail at the Sessions. He pleaded not quilty to the charges.<br />
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Marylebone Mercury - Saturday 29 May 1948<br><br />
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'''AMMONIA PISTOL ON SUSPECT'''<br />
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When arrested on a charge of housebreaking, a musician was found to be in possession of a toy pistol wth a rubber bulb attached, in which there was a strong solution of ammonia.<br />
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This was stated at the County of London Sessions, on Friday, when John Lawrence Sullivan, 25, of Highgate, pleaded quilty to breaking and entering the house of Sidney Camber, of Lancaster Terrace, Bayswater, with intent to steal; possessing housebreaking implements by night -- a jemmy, torch, eight keys and a pair of gloves -- and being armed with an offensive weapon, a squirt gun with ammonia solution, with intent to break and enter Mr. Camber's house.<br />
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Called for the defence, Dr. Frost, of Wimpole Street, W, said that he found Sullivan in a state of depression bordering upon insanity. Explaining the "squirt gun," he said he used it upon the blonde hair of the woman with whom he was living and also to clean the plugs of his car. He considered that Sullivan would respond to treatment in a private nursing home or mental home rather than hospital treatment in prison.<br />
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Mr. Eustace Fulton, the chairman, passed sentence of 15 months' imprisonment.<br />
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Kensington Post - Saturday 19 June 1948</div>
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== SQUIRT LABELLED "DANGEROUS" ==<br />
<big>'''Ice-cream dealer burglary charge'''</big><br><br><br />
'''A SMALL SQUIRT labelled "Dangerous--handle with care," a jemmy, a torch, eight keys and a pair of gloves were exhibited on the sollicitors' table at Marylebone Court when John Lawrence Sullivan, 24, ice-cream dealer, of Balmore Street, Hightgate, was charged on remand with burglariousty breaking into a flat in Lancaster Terrace, Paddington, with intent to commit a felony; possessing housebreaking implements by night and possessing an offensive weapon (a squirt containing ammonia solution).'''<br><br><br />
Mrs. Louisa Baker, caretaker, said at about 10.5 p.m. on May 5, she went to the flat, the occupants of which were away. She heard a noise like a man tapping a pipe on a table. She went to the flat below and phoned the police.<br><br />
Constable Stacey said he saw Sullivan come from the rear window of the flat and run up the fire escape. He caught him after he had thrown away a jemmy. On Sullivan were a torch, eight keys, and a squirt -- containing a liquid smelling of ammonia. Asked what the "squirt gun" was for, he said, "I use it upon the dogs in joints if they give me any trouble."<br><br />
A pane of glass had been removed from the kitchen door at the flat and there were jemmy marks on inner doors.<br><br />
Cross-examined, the Constable said he didnt know that the squirt might be used on a lady's hair or for squirting ammonia on the plugs of cars.<br><br />
Sullivan was sent for trail at the Sessions. He pleaded not quilty to the charges.<br />
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29th May 1948 - Marylebone Mercury</div>
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