Op Banner photos - some memories for the old and bold

[MrMemory]

A couple from Eric Luke's archives - Belfast 1977. Anyone go back that far?

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A hard day at the office - Belfast 1977 - Another cracker from Eric Luke's archives (no, I am not him)..... Note the detail on the rifle butt.

 

[FourZeroCharlie]

2 observations on that image:

1. Storno - the most successful Communist Plot of the 70s.

2. Rear sight setting: What the hell was he expecting engage? Dublin?

 

[Fat POM]

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2 observations on that image:

1. Storno - the most successful Communist Plot of the 70s.

2. Rear sight setting: What the hell was he expecting engage? Dublin?

I'm only guessing but I suspect he had had a bit of a difficult morning and had failed to notice his sights had slipped forward. However engaging Dublin could be seen as a positive outcome to some arrsers!

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

I'm only guessing but I suspect he had had a bit of a difficult morning and had failed to notice his sights had slipped forward. However engaging Dublin could be seen as a positive outcome to some arrsers!

I think it's this chap from upthread, so perhaps we can cut him some slack:

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

A hard day at the office - Belfast 1977 - Another cracker from Eric Luke's archives (no, I am not him)..... Note the detail on the rifle butt.


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The butt map is of Divis Flats.

 

[javaguzzisti]

@rgjbloke 's mob?

 

[Fat POM]

@rgjbloke 's mob?

I think there is an A&SH in there somewhere?

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

@rgjbloke 's mob?

Argylls I think.

 

[Fat POM]

Argylls I think.

There's certainly one in the bunch.

 

[Kinch]

There's certainly one in the bunch.

The tall fair haired guy at the back looks very much like the late Sgt Tony Vine 1RGJ

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

I think there is an A&SH in there somewhere?

1 RGJ were in a different part of Belfast - Ardoyne/New Lodge. This lot are 1 GORDONS I think - they were the Hollywood Bn at the time, drafted in to support whoever was operating in the Falls/Divis etc. There were always a lot of atts/dets so no surprise an errant Argyll may have found himself as an IR to 1 GORDONS!

Of course, I may be wrong…

 

[Richard Headicus]

1 RGJ were in a different part of Belfast - Ardoyne/New Lodge. This lot are 1 GORDONS I think - they were the Hollywood Bn at the time, drafted in to support whoever was operating in the Falls/Divis etc. There were always a lot of atts/dets so no surprise an errant Argyll may have found himself as an IR to 1 GORDONS!

Of course, I may be wrong…

At first glance it looks like ours, but a bit squarish. It fits the Gleng mind. I came out just before NI, but I don't recognise the face.

 

[javaguzzisti]

I think there is an A&SH in there somewhere?

Correct, I didn't look hard enough.

 

[rgjbloke]

1 RGJ were in a different part of Belfast - Ardoyne/New Lodge. This lot are 1 GORDONS I think - they were the Hollywood Bn at the time, drafted in to support whoever was operating in the Falls/Divis etc. There were always a lot of atts/dets so no surprise an errant Argyll may have found himself as an IR to 1 GORDONS!

Of course, I may be wrong…

Yep.

I was B Coy 1RGJ and we had the New Lodge and the docks area in 1977. We were based at Girdwood on the edge of the New Lodge area. I can’t remember now where the rest of the battalion were.

We did Divis in 1973. That’s where on top of Divis Tower, I learned that tall buildings are designed to sway in the wind.


Edit, the picture on my avatar was taken at Girdwood in 1977.

 

[beefer]

Girdwood is now a leisure centre.