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, pictured below,  was established in Zetland Park, Grangemouth. The men are also commemorated at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

	Sapper - Raymond Buchanan	Age 20
	Sapper - Norman Bennet	Age 20
	Sapper - James Black	Age 18
	Sapper - Stuart Evenden	Age 22
	Sapper - Peter Evenden	Age 19
	Sapper - Ian Mercer	Age 17
	Sapper - Alexander O'Brien	Age 18
	Sapper - Terry Smith	Age 20
	Sapper - Ronald Temprell	Age 26
	Sapper - Joseph Walker	Age 21

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