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This page is dedicated to the ten men of 300 Troop 131
Independent Parachute Squadron Royal
Engineers (V) who tragically lost their lives
on 28 September 1975 whilst
on "Exercise Trent Chase", an 80 mile navigation exercise on the River Trent.
Eleven men were in an assault boat on the River Trent during a force 6 gale,
with the river in flood, when their assault boat was swept over a weir known
as the Devils Cauldron. Ten men were drowned and one survived by clinging on
to the assault boat. The scene of the tragedy is marked by a piece of
Scottish granite
with an inscribed plaque bearing the names of those who perished. Another
memorial was established near
Grangemouth, at Falkirk Cemetery. The men
are also commemorated at the
National Memorial Arboretum
in
Staffordshire.
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Sapper Raymond Buchanan.
Aged 20
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Sapper Norman Bennet.
Aged 29
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Sapper James Black.
Aged 18
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Sapper Stuart Evenden.
Aged 22
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Sapper Peter Evenden.
Aged 19
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Sapper Ian Mercer.
Aged 17
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Sapper Alexander O’Brien.
Aged 18
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Sapper Terry Smith.
Aged 20
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Sapper Ronald Temprell.
Aged 26
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Sapper Joseph Walker.
Aged 21
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Sadly Missed But Never Forgotten
Airborne Forces Prayer
May the defence of the most high be above and beneath, around and within us, in our going out and in our coming in, in our rising up and in our coming down, all our
days and all our nights, until the dawn when the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings for the people of the world, through Jesus Christ Our Lord
Amen
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