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Links to personal stories and photographs of men, who served with the London Irish Rifles in Tunisia and Italy can be found below.

Oral Accounts with the Imperial War Museum

Major Desmond Woods
Lt Colonel Bala Bredin

Dennis Mulqueen

Captain John Strick
Cpl George Willis
Cpl Michael Donoghue
Captain Sean Crampton
CSM Ashton Clarke

2nd Battalion in North Africa
2nd Battalion in Sicily

Sydney Ekin
Sidney Swift
David Moore
Alfred Cook
Michael Tasker
Herbert Bick
William Donaldson

Captain Sydney Ekin leads the inspection of the 2nd Bn. London Irish Rifles

Ion Goff
Charles Reidy
George Guild
Albert Leddy
Corran Purdon
Desmond Fay

John/Harry Lofting
Jeff Jeffrey
Joseph Ransley
Edward O’Reilly
Joseph Fitzgerald
Albert Fitzgibbon
James Murtagh

Michael Foley
Patrick Keenan
Robert Prentice
William Jenkins/John Wilson
David Moore

Thomas Hatton
Louis Jeffrey
John Gregory
George Hurdley
Pat Sweeney

Terence Barry
Alfred Jeffrey
Marcus Beattie
Norman Gould
Terence Flynn