This famous horn was stolen during the night of 13th/14th of August 1998 from the Hartenstein Airborne Museum and remained lost for more than two and a half years. At some point an inhabitant of Arnhem tracked it down and it was subsequently returned in May 2001.
The then Captain JD Frost was presented with the horn by fellow officers when he left Habbaniyah, Iraq in 1940 at the end of a two year secondment prior to returning to the UK to rejoin his old Regiment [The Cameronians]. The copper horn with silver mouthpiece was inscribed “Capt JD Frost with best wishes from the Members of the Royal Exodus Hunt”, he described it as “one of the best presents I have ever had”.
He volunteered for the newly formed Parachute Regiment and led the daring raid on Bruneval, and in late 1942 as CO of 2 Para he took part in the fighting in North Africa, on landing at Oudna Frost used his hunting horn to let his troops know where he was, and again he used it on 17th September at Arnhem to rally his troops, when he was wounded and taken prisoner at the bridge the horn was lost.
In July 1945 Mr ER Oosterwijk was supervising the clearance work at the bridge when he noticed something glinting amongst the rubble, picked it up and saw it was a battered hunting horn. He took it home , cleaned it up and managed to beat out some of the dents, and kept it for many years until September 1997 when he presented it to the Museum, where it was exhibited in the new acquisitions cabinet until it was stolen.
The Horn in our Club Logo was designed by our Founder Members when the Club was inaugurated in 1968, all who had served in 2 PARA during WW2 [1941 to 1945] from Bruneval to Arnhem.
When the Parachute 2 Club [1941-1945] was reformed in 1999 and amalgamated with the 2 PARA Association elements from both of their Club Logo's were used in the reformed Logo of the Parachute 2 Club.
