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Major Desmond Woods<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Lt Colonel Bala Bredin<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Dennis Mulqueen<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Captain John Strick<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Cpl George Willis<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Cpl Michael Gallagher<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Sydney Ekin<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Sidney Swift<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
David Moore<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Alfred Cook<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Michael Tasker<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
William Donaldson<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Herbert Bick<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Ion Goff<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Charles Reidy<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
George Guild<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Desmond Fay<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Albert Leddy<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

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