Op Banner photos - some memories for the old and bold

[Cutaway]

Girdwood is now a leisure centre.

Wasn't it always ?

 

[PortreeKid2]

Girdwood is now a leisure centre.

Wasn't it always ?

Was it not nicknamed ' Girliewood '

 

[ugly]

Was it not nicknamed ' Girliewood '

MPH was nicknamed Musgrave Park Hotel by us in New Barnsley

 

[PortreeKid2]

MPH was nicknamed Musgrave Park Hotel by us in New Barnsley

Ohhhh indeed

I could tell a wee story about a wife giving it big licks in the Pay Office about how she only got 49 pfennings wages - Her hubby had been based at MPH.

The Pay Clerk should have told her to go and ask her hubby what A/R payments and Mil / Fine was.

 

[Busterdog]

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

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ISTR the incident, involving the Argylls, took place around the Falls/Springfield Road... the lad being dragged to safety was a young subaltern rendered unconscious when the snatch squad he was commanding came under a hail of missiles.
The old Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were a superb regiment.

 

[babyjocks]

Pic #2, is that shirt collar on outside of flak jacket? Nice.

I can highly recommend the photo book Magnum Ireland
Magnum Photos

Also the Paul Greengrass film bloody sunday seems to capture the look/feel well (not having been there myself, so others can judge)

(and includes a performance by Simon Mann before he tried to take over Equatorial Guinea, silly boy)

Silly boy gets over excited and fluffs his lines, reverting to the old days, and talks about 1 Para's 'B Squadron.'
He was tech advisor, and I guess no one noticed.

 

[Bubbles_Barker]

ISTR the incident, involving the Argylls, took place around the Falls/Springfield Road... the lad being dragged to safety was a young subaltern rendered unconscious when the snatch squad he was commanding came under a hail of missiles.
The old Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were a superb regiment.

I remember he was a subbie too, thought he was Gordons though for some reason. The photo was captioned with a name originally.

 

[Richard Headicus]

ISTR the incident, involving the Argylls, took place around the Falls/Springfield Road... the lad being dragged to safety was a young subaltern rendered unconscious when the snatch squad he was commanding came under a hail of missiles.
The old Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were a superb regiment.

I could agree with that, but modesty prevents me from so doing.

 

[Stonker]

Must be some photos in this:

Uncivil War | Military history

www.cambridge.org

@Kinch
Be aware "Look Inside" is not like Amazon. You have to download extracts as pdf files.

 

[Kinch]

Must be some photos in this:

Uncivil War | Military history

www.cambridge.org

@Kinch
Be aware "Look Inside" is not like Amazon. You have to download extracts as pdf files.

I have been waiting for this booķ for a long time. Huw Bennett, as an affiliated scholar, has much more access than I have as an unaffiliated independent and so I am quite excited to read his book and look at the evidence. Might even encourage me to finish writing my own - it has been a slog. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Jammy66]

Found these on FB...

 

[Fang_Farrier]

Serious ambulances from the time

 

[Kinch]

MRF Four Square Laundry Van

 

[Kinch]

Shopping Trip?

 

[Richard Headicus]

Shopping Trip?
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The fairer sex would do *anything for a handbag that size, neffer mind three and sod the shopping!

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