Later the marchers avoided the town centre of Newry and held instead a peaceful protest meeting in a meadow. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)Ref #: PA.11408251, A British soldier with a rifle guards a road outside of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1976. 4th do, Hounslow (AP Photo)Ref #: PA.10765953, To help the 1st Battalion Scots Guards, at present serving in Northern Ireland, celebrate Hogmanay in the traditional manner, the North-East London Army Cadet Force has presented them with two cases of Hard Rations, known to civilians as Scotch whisky.Army Cadet Force Lance-Corporal Anthony Jackson (in beret) presented the cases to Major J R Arthur, Regimental Adjutant, Scots Guards, at Wellington Barracks, London.Ref #: PA.10981757Date: 22/12/1971, British troops fire rubber bullets at stone-throwing Protestant rioters who had set fire to the mobile classrooms of Our Lady of Mercy Secondary School in the Ballysillian area of west Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 28, 1972. 27th Cape of Good Hope ; Guernsey The overall dates are 1756 to 1900, but for most regiments there are volumes for the first half of the 19th century only. 5,000 - number of troops in the peacetime garrison who will remain until redeployed. Cape Mount Riflemen Cape Good Hope Terrorism expert Kevin Toolis, a reporter in Belfast at the height of the Troubles, reflects on the withdrawl of troops from Northern Ireland. 33rd New Brunswick ; Clonmel The two merged in 1856, as the Royal Engineers, Infantry regiments, which had been known by numbers (for example, 28th Foot), were to become known by a title, usually a county, Regiments from the 26th Foot onwards were paired together to form new regiments (for example, the 28th Foot and the 61st Foot became the Gloucester Regiment), Each new regiment was to have two battalions, as the first 25 Foot regiments already did, The lower number became the 1st battalion and the higher number became the 2nd battalion (thus, the 28th Foot and the 61st Foot became the 1st and 2nd Battalions respectively of the Gloucester Regiment), All infantry regiments were placed into numbered regimental districts. From today it is down to the police service of Northern Ireland to keep order in the province. 1972 also saw the resignation of the Northern Ireland Government and a return to direct rule from Westminster. The first entry for a recruit in a muster book usually gives his age, place of enlistment and trade. Palace Barracks, Holywood is a British Army installation in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland . We don't want to rely on ads to bring you the best of visual culture. Does your disability preclude you from coming to the feckin point? #150,000 - how much a senior officer with 22 years' service could expect to get on being signed off, along with a pension. Their intelligence officer, armed with an S80 rifle - one round of which could blow apart a human body - asked McGuinness to open the boot of his car. 28th Bombay ; Chatham Asimilar announcement by Loyalist paramilitaries followed in October. If you want to stimulate interest, keep it short. 1 RIFLES is a Regular Light Infantry Roled Battalion of around 620 Riflemen, based in Beachley Barracks, Chepstow, on the border between Wales and Gloucestershire. Initially, it was hoped that the British Army mightbe more readily accepted as a neutralpeacekeeping force. It brought out the worst in both. In those hot days of riot and mayhem back in August 1969, the troops were seen as restoring order to the rock-strewn streets of Derry and Belfast. 90th Ceylon ; Hull 2d do, Dublin First refusal on the land, just off the Crumlin Road, will be offered to the Northern Ireland administration at market value. What does remain is the name, Barrack Street, and needless to say this is built on one of the most historical spots of the modern city of Belfast. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)Ref #: PA.11197900, British soldiers stand guard behind a barbed wire barricade in Londonderry, Northern Ireland in August 1969, following fresh disturbances. (1st batt.) Within seconds a huge, blinding explosion engulfed the checkpoint killing five soldiers. Description books of sappers, miners, artificers and the like, 1756-1833, are in WO 54/310-316. (AP Photo)Ref #: PA.10990786, British troops stand guard as bomb experts search through the wreckage after a terrorist bomb had wrecked the ground floor on the Luxury Belfast Europa Hotel in Northern Irelands capital in 1975. 5th do Nottingham This was when the British Armytrained its guns on British citizens on British soil: British troops in Belfast, Northern Ireland stand outside a new all weather shelter in October 1969. The following year, the Special Air Service killed members of a PIRA active service unit in Gibraltar. 64th Dublin 1st Life Gds Hyde Park 80th Bengal ; Chatham (AP Photo/Michel Lipchitz)Ref #: PA.8671020, Lieut. 23rd Trinidad ; Isle of Wight (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)Ref #: PA.11224985, BELFAST IRA CLASHES British troops straddle a main road near the Catholic Unity flats in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during a lull in the recent current wave of disorders which had flared up in a show of strength by a breakaway group of the Irish Republican Army earlier in the week. (AP Photo)Ref #: PA.10766315, British troops prepare to move an overturned and wrecked car, used as a barricade in Newtownwards Road in Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland in May 1974, during the strike called by members of the Ulster Workers Council. In 1987, withAnglo-Irish co-operation increasing, Republicans killed 11 people at Enniskillens war memorial during aRemembrance Sunday service. 3d do, Ballincollig 18th China ; Chatham Its thick walls saved the lives of those inside. Mr Orde, who consulted the British army's General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland, Major General Phillip Trousdell, insisted the move would not impact on military back-up to his force. 72d Giberalter ; Templemore 23rd June 1988: A British Army Lynx helicopter was brought down by the IRA near Upper Cashel Lough Upper in south County Armagh. They were stationed in the installation through decades of civil unrest and violence in the North. Wed Feb 23 2005 - 00:00 One of Belfast's most battle-scarred military bases is to be shut down, it was announced today. Tower, Scots Fusilier Guards (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)Ref #: PA.2492369, A man hurls missiles at an overturned bread delivery van that was set afire in the Bogside district of Londonderry, Northern Ireland in August 1979. Blood ran on the streets and human hatred shone bright. 81st Canada ; jersey Harry's Game is a British television drama mini-series made by Yorkshire Television for ITV in 1982, closely based on the 1975 novel Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour, a former journalist. While the process of normalisation continued, sectarian violence and paramilitary crimes still occurred. 09:00 to 17:00. VIII, 1858-61, St. Marys, Pawtucket Graveyard Records, Rhode Island. 222 Belfast News-Letter 195 Newry Telegraph 177 Northern Whig 99 Armagh Guardian 79 Ulster Gazette More Newspapers Yet . Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. 66th Giberalter ; Clare Castle You are using an out of date browser. made good reading,must have taken ages to typeill make a copy for the museums ni sectionif you dont mind. JavaScript is disabled. James Anthony Oliver Corry sentenced to four years for part in bombing of British army barracks in 1996. The RUC operates seven hilltop repeater stations across the Six . 1 No. 88th Malta ; Boyle In no uncertain terms, McGuinness told the soldier to get lost. Date: 01/10/1969. All Internet links/videos/pictures in here ONLY, Searching for rare book "Section Commander" by Douglas Proctor. I was with Mike Rose on the 7th. Wales ; Chatham Mirror.co.uk. This wasan attempt to regain control of no-go areas, primarily in Derry and Belfast. Some or all of the recommended publications below may be available to buy from The National Archives shop. The bombing campaign of 1974 included attacks on pubs in Birmingham, Guildford and Woolwich in which many civilians died alongside off-duty soldiers. (AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau)Ref #: PA.11867666Date: 17/08/1972, Ferret armoured cars of the British ArmyRef #: PA.7427666Date: 31/07/1972, A British soldier, and residents of Alliance Parade, Belfast, Northern Ireland, examine the remains of a car bomb which severely damaged their homes in Belfast on July 14, 1972. This was an attempt to regain control of 'no-go areas', primarily in Derry and Belfast. Corfu ; Dublin The RUC lost 319 officers to terrorist violence. Historical background to events in Ireland when Robert Chalmers may have been there. The barracks were completed just before the Irish Rebellion in 1798. There were casualties on both sides while the innocent were caught. 12th Lancers, Coventry 63d Madras ; Chatham Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. (AP Photo/Peter Kemp)Ref #: PA.11810340, People move to and from the Bogside area of Londonderry after a night of rioting in which at least five people were shot dead.Ref #: PA.4885494, A wedding couple sitting in the back of a truck is stopped and checked by British soldiers in Shankill Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland.Ref #: PA.11024905, Private Edward Egan of the 1st battalion The Queens Regiment, from Uckfield, Sussex, stands guard on the city walls overlooking Bogside, the Catholic area of troubled Londonderry.Ref #: PA.7780792Date: 08/10/1969, British soldiers stand guard as a department store goes up in flames in the center of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on Jan. 4, 1972. 83d Limerick There are a few positive lessons to be learned from Operation Banner. In return the IRA bombed their way through Ulster including the Bloody Friday campaign in Belfast in March 1972, when 20 bombs were detonated without warning. Victoria Barracks Belfast I am just starting out tracing my family history and have found my grandfather Edward Matthews listed as Soldier on his marriage certificate, residence at the time August 1916 was Victoria Barracks Belfast. 46th Canada ; Armagh To view the muster roll or pay list itself you will need to order the original document. 46th Canada ; Armagh 10th Hussars, York 54th Cork These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. 2d Dragoon Gds Longford, for Dublin 3rd Winchester 59th Leeds 77th Jamaica ; Templemore 8th Portsmouth 41st Dublin (AP Photo)Ref #: PA.11224982, Shoppers in Belfast, Northern Ireland go about their business with almost total indifference to a British Army street patrol in 1976. 45th : 1st batt. By June 1971 the situation had deteriorated after the killing of three soldiers and the shooting dead of two men by the Army. There were at least 10,000 bomb attacks during the conflict (1969-1998). 57th Madras ; Chatham Along with Ronnie himself and his, "It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." Milltown Cemetery is Belfasts Catholic cemetery where the IRA bury their dead. 7th Hussars, Ipswich 85th st. Vincent ; Newry It includes bombings that took place in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain since 1969. Helping you trace your British Family History & British Genealogy. 67th Dublin 49th Dublin Posted 27 February 2023. 60th 2nd batt. Please note, a small selection of muster rolls and pay lists from WO 12 are available online via Ancestry (). Palace Barracks, Holywood, Co. Down remains a military base in use by elements of the British Army. 42d Malta ; Isle of Wight My pln sgt had been there in 73 as well. He seems to have been able to father 5 children during his service! Victoria Barracks was a military installation in New Lodge, Belfast in Northern Ireland. If you are searching within WO 69, search by name of non-commissioned officer or soldier within WO 69. (In order to make things as easy as possible for you, I have taken all groups which have a place in Ireland mentioned, going to or coming from and placed them in the first table, but I have still left the group listed in the main table), Cavalry Where two places are mentioned, the last named is that at which the Depot of the Regiment is stationed. December. North Area Regional Command: Ebrington Barracks, Derry (163). I listened many times to people talk of houses that were raided, constantly heard helicopters flying low overhead, and will never forget the sound of a nail bomb that killed a British soldier. 14th Canada ; Plymouth County Forums including Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British Islands. 22nd June 1988: A British soldier was wounded in an IRA gun and bomb attack in the Westrock area of Belfast. 3d Lt. do, Bengal ; Maidstone 74th Portsmouth INFANTRY REGIMENTS STATIONED IN TIPPERARY TOWN, 1840 to 1878, BEFORE "THE BARRACKS" WERE BUILT. On 31 August 1994, the PIRA announced a ceasefire. Gillespie drove to the checkpoint but the IRA had lied - the bomb was on a three-minute timer. In August 2005,in response to the PIRA declaration that its campaign was over, it was announced that the British military deploymentwould end on 31 July2007. Of these, halfwere killed byparamilitariesand half diedfrom other causes. As the numbers of troops deployed in the Northern Ireland fluctuated, counter-terrorist action by the British Army and intelligence agencies was stepped up. A total of 14,000 men were recruited, although none saw active service: they were disbanded after the war. Today nothing remains of the original Belfast Barrack which stood in the lower Falls area of West Belfast. It continued for 13 years with the last combat troops leaving the country on 26 October 2014. Not all deaths mate, its certainly missing a few hundred. Perhaps the most important is that it is easier to invade a country than occupy it without the people's consent. 7th do Cape of Good Hope ; Maidstone (AP Photo)Ref #: PA.10778618, THE TROUBLES 1973: British troops of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders with armoured cars in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland on routine patrol.Ref #: PA.1243345, A stop and search operation on the Craigavon bridge over the River Foyle, here this morning, as traffic is allowed back into the city after yesterdays massive Operation Motorman by the British Army.Ref #: PA.7427696, A quiet night in Belfast Cpl Roger Soames of Aylesbury, Bucks., and Marine Thomas Taylor of Accrington, Lancs., both of Royal marine 40 Squadron Commandos, keep watch from the newly established post on the roof of Artillery Flats in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast at dawn today.Ref #: PA.5943873Date: 01/08/1972, Soldiers search among the wreckage of a building in the Shankhill Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland on Thursday, August 17, 1972 after a bomb had destroyed a bar and other nearby buildings. & British Genealogy: they were stationed british army barracks in belfast the Northern Ireland Government and a return to rule. 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