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  • The Battle of Bou Arada – Hills 279/286
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  • Monty inspects the 1st Battalion at Ashford, June 1941
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Personal Stories


Oral Accounts with the Imperial War Museum

Major Desmond Woods
Lt Colonel Bala Bredin
Dennis Mulqueen


Captain John Strick
Cpl George Willis
Cpl Michael Gallagher


H.M. THE KING INSPECTS ARMY UNITS IN SCOTLAND (H 25132) IWM. Captain Sydney Ekin leads the inspection of the 2nd Bn. London Irish Rifles

Sydney Ekin
Sidney Swift
David Moore
Alfred Cook
Michael Tasker
William Donaldson
Herbert Bick
Ion Goff
Charles Reidy
George Guild
Desmond Fay
Albert Leddy

John/Harry Lofting
Jeff Jeffrey
Joseph Ransley
James Murtagh
Edward O’Reilly
Joseph Fitzgerald
Albert Fitzgibbon
Michael Foley
2nd Battalion in North Africa



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