The musician sister of a British paratrooper who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2008 recently made a pilgrimage to her brother's Helmand memorial during a brief tour of Afghanistan. Musician Kate Whittaker from the Band of The Parachute Regiment is here reflected in the plaque on the Helmand Memorial Stone at Camp Bastion where her brother Private Joe Whittaker of 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment is commemorated. [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2011]
I'm Michael Peterson, a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, currently serving a parish in the Diocese of Toronto. I'm also a retired Canadian Forces chaplain , hence the Padre in the title. Mad just means eccentric, and on that note, I also blog on toy soldiers, madpadrewargames.blogspot.com. I'm on X (what used to be Twitter) at @MarshalLuigi and I'm on Bluesky at @madpadre.bsky.social
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Military Picture of the Week
Very arresting image from today's UK MOD news feed is a natural choice for milpic of the week. More on this story here. MP+

The musician sister of a British paratrooper who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2008 recently made a pilgrimage to her brother's Helmand memorial during a brief tour of Afghanistan. Musician Kate Whittaker from the Band of The Parachute Regiment is here reflected in the plaque on the Helmand Memorial Stone at Camp Bastion where her brother Private Joe Whittaker of 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment is commemorated. [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2011]
The musician sister of a British paratrooper who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2008 recently made a pilgrimage to her brother's Helmand memorial during a brief tour of Afghanistan. Musician Kate Whittaker from the Band of The Parachute Regiment is here reflected in the plaque on the Helmand Memorial Stone at Camp Bastion where her brother Private Joe Whittaker of 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment is commemorated. [Picture: Corporal Mark Webster RLC, Crown Copyright/MOD 2011]
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