During December 1942, 1 LIR continued its long period of defence duties and training in Kirkuk.<\/p>\n
At the start of the month, 2 LIR travelled from Bougie to Teboursouk in Tunisia, and immediately started patrolling in that area with other elements of 6th Armoured Division, and continued to do so for the rest of the month in the area south of Medjez-el-Bab across the Goubellat Plain and further south towards Bou Arada and El Aroussa. On 10th December, 2 LIR suffered its first fatality when Rifleman Childs of the Carrier platoon was accidentally killed by a 75 grenade.<\/p>\n
Key Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1st<\/sup>\u00a0to 6th<\/sup>\u00a0December\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2 LIR remain in Bougie.<\/p>\n 6th<\/sup>\u00a0to 9th<\/sup>\u00a0December\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 2 LIR move to Tunisia via Constantine.<\/p>\n 9th<\/sup>\u00a0December\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Arrival at Teboursouk.<\/p>\n 10th<\/sup>\u00a0to 19th<\/sup>\u00a0December\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Patrolling in the Bou Arada\/Pont Du Fahs areas.\u00a0 F Company with Capt Ekin spend one week on patrol under the command of 16\/5 Lancers.<\/p>\n 20th<\/sup>\u00a0December\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Battalion HQ move to the Medjez-el-Bab area, and there are continuing active patrols for the remainder of the month.<\/p>\n 25th<\/sup>\u00a0December\u00a0<\/strong>– Major McCann transfers as 2 i.c to 6 Innisks, whose new Commanding Officer was Lt-Col CHB (Heaver) Allen (RUR), who had taken over command of 6 Innisks following the serious injuries suffered by former commanding officer Lt-Col Macartney-Filgate.<\/p>\n Roll of Honour, December 1942:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rifleman R Childs 10\/12\/1942 Medjez-el-Bab Tunisia 2 LIR<\/a><\/p>\n Rifleman CJ Brady 11\/12\/1942 Medjez-el-Bab Tunisia 2 LIR<\/a><\/p>\n Rifleman H Kershaw 26\/12\/1942 Medjez-el-Bab Tunisia 2 LIR<\/a><\/p>\n During December 1942, 1 LIR continued its long period of defence duties and training in Kirkuk. At the start of the month, 2 LIR travelled from Bougie to Teboursouk in Tunisia, and immediately started patrolling in that area with other elements of 6th Armoured Division, and continued to do so for the rest of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1641,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1655","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1655\/revisions\/5580"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nRead The London Irish Rifles At War – December 1942.<\/a><\/h4>\n
Read January 1943 here.<\/a><\/h4>\n
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