Trenchard served in the 4th Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets from 1972 to 1980, reaching the rank of Captain.
The IRA unit was involved in a gun battle with a Green Jackets' observation post deployed in the area, and the helicopter was sent in to support the ground troops.
Wood became Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Royal Rifles in 1962 and Honorary Colonel of the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, Royal Green Jackets between 1967 and 1969.
(The use of green was so distinctive that it led to the naming of the Green Jackets Brigade who became the Royal Green Jackets.)
He served in the Rifle Brigade in the years 1950 and 1951, commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant, and in the Royal Green Jackets reaching the rank of Lieutenant.
4 March 1978 - Nicholas Smith (20), 7 Platoon, B Company, 2 RGJ, Royal Green Jackets, British Army was killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army booby trap bomb while removing an Irish flag from a telegraph pole in Crossmaglen.
Upon graduation from Sandhurst in 1992, Peake served as a platoon Commander with the now defunct light infantry regiment, the Royal Green Jackets.
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A second explosion occurred just over two hours later, when a bomb hidden underneath the bandstand in Regent's Park exploded during a performance of the music from Oliver! by the Royal Green Jackets band to a crowd of 120 people.
In the early 1980s the Site was to become the new depot for The Royal Green Jackets when they moved from Peninsula Barracks, Winchester, and was named "Sir John Moore Barracks".