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Belfast , Fort Whiterock , 1987 , we were right in the middle of...
e.g. David, Wigan (04/09/2010)
Back then, I was a young platoon commander – a Lieutenant – in...
Major 1st King's Own Border, Derry (17/06/2010)
After 35 long years, I have a kaleidoscope of memories; some funny, some...
Soldier, Belafst (02/02/2010)
The day started off with a lot of tension in the air, as only...
Steve, Belfast (02/01/2010)
As I said we were the primary brick (call sign Lima); the patrol...
James, RRW, West Belfast (14/12/2009)
Another memory and saddest time of my life didn’t involve the usual abuse,...
Alan, West Belfast (14/12/2009)
What do we all remember when we think back to "The Troubles". Do we...
Bim, UKLF (22/10/2009)
‘A Soldier Has Been Killed in the Ardoyne Area of Belfast’
These were the words...
Ken Wharton, Belfast (10/10/2009)
We left from Dover by troop train on our way to Liverpool. When...
Soldier of the Green Jackets, (03/09/2009)
I was part of the 1st Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment in Fort Whiterock West...
Andy, Essex (02/09/2009)
One also needs to mention the notorious Divis Street and, of course, the...
Ken Wharton, On tour Belfast (31/08/2009)
On November 22, 2008, in the company of a comrade, I returned to...
Ken Wharton, Australia (03/06/2009)
I hated the crossroads in Belfast. Not the ones outside of the built-up...
Haydn Infantry CSM RRW, Belfast (02/06/2009)
Part of our task as resident Battalion in Belfast was to relieve other short...
Haydn, Belfast (02/06/2009)
I had first entered Springfield road police station in 1970. At that time I...
Anonymous, Belfast (02/06/2009)
We got word from the ops room that there was to be a...
David, Derry (25/05/2009)
I was posted as RSM of the 2nd Bn of The Ulster Defence Regiment...
Andrew, Middleton (21/05/2009)
I had been home for a few days of Christmas leave and just arrived...
Harry, Armagh (21/05/2009)
A late summer Saturday night, the Pubs were closing. People were making their way...
Nigel, Derry (21/05/2009)
Jean Leggett was a L/C Greenfinch in A Company 2UDR. I saw quite a...
Henry, Armagh (21/05/2009)
The battle of Long Kesh was the night that the prison erupted into...
Peter, Northern Ireland (21/05/2009)
Dear Teresa,The answer to your question is 'yes!'...I was one of the soldiers...
Colin Demet, Belfast (02/05/2009)
Jun 3, 1976 and on the Shankhill Rd and North Street Belfast; just...
Gunner Royal Art, Belfast (17/04/2009)
Not far outside the main gates of Shackleton Barracks was a very nice...
Lance Corporal, Ballykelly (17/04/2009)
Eventually my luck ran out and, despite all my precautions, I was injured....
C'Company Queens, Belfast (17/04/2009)
My first memories, see, were the smoke and the flames and all the...
Royal Reg Wales, Belfast (17/04/2009)
Too many steps that lead on high,
So many floors up to the sky....
Colin Demet, Belfast (12/04/2009)
I looked at my watch – it was 9 p.m. I had been ‘on...
Colin Demet, Belfast (12/04/2009)
Hi - My name is Colin Demét; I deserted the British army two weeks...
Colin Demet, Belfast (23/02/2009)
Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast: 1991
Lance Corporal Phillip Winstanley, Operating The ...
Phillip Winstanley, Belfast (12/02/2009)
During another time our section was on foot patrol coming down Beechwood Avenue; it...
Pete, Derry (12/02/2009)
British military intelligence has many years of experience at running networks of agents i...
Martin Ingram, Northern Ireland (02/02/2009)
The FRU was established with unique terms of reference – unlike other intelligence units...
Martin Ingram, Northrn Ireland (02/02/2009)
My wife always knew me as an IRA man. Nothing else. Twenty-one years on,...
Kevin Fulton, Ulster (30/01/2009)
It was on a late hot afternoon in August 1973. I had been tasked...
Sniper Royal Fusiliers, Derry (28/01/2009)
I was fortunate, however, to be involved in one other major fire-fight with the...
Scott, Hertfordshire (28/01/2009)
I joined the parachute regiment in the late 1990’s. As a young...
John, Omagh (28/01/2009)
From time to time information received would relate to a
terrorist attack on a...
James, Ulster (28/01/2009)
Now back in Belfast and it was a busy first two weeks with lots...
Seargent Major W, Belfast (28/01/2009)
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