Emotional return to Shropshire for Redcaps
More than 100 soldiers will return from Afghanistan this week for an emotional reunion with their families in Shropshire.
Members of 174 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment Royal Military Police (RMP), will return home to a hero's welcome on Thursday. The Redcaps will return to Parsons Barracks in Donnington, Telford, together with personnel from Territorial Army Royal Military Police and RAF Police.
They are due at Donnington between 4pm and 7pm where they will be met by their families before holding a reception.
Nick Pritchard, spokesman, said the 115 personnel are from 174 Provost Company, 160 Provost Company (Aldershot), 116 Provost Company TA (Stafford/Manchester), 253 Provost Company TA (London/South-ampton) and five RAF police stations.
On Sunday members of 174 Provost Company are due to visit the National Memorial Arboretum, in Alrewas, Staffordshire, where they are being presented with their campaign medals, at a service starting at 10am.
The 174 Provost Company originated during the Second World War, having been formed in 1942 to control ports in the north east of England, where it was responsible for military traffic control and troop movement.
At the end of the war, the unit was disbanded in January 1947 and was not heard of again for another 22 years. The RMP is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of service personnel, and for providing a military police presence both in the UK, and whilst service personnel are deployed overseas on operations and exercises.
Members of the RMP are generally known as Redcaps because they wear red-topped peaked caps or red berets.
