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"Faugh-a-Ballagh"
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1957
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1959
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The Regimental
Gazette of
The Royal Irish
Fusiliers
87th
89th
Vol. XLIII
Autumn
No. 196
RIF
Sergeants' Mess Album
Queen's Birthday Parade, Tripoli
No. 1 Company marching past in slow time
Photo: Army Public Relations
Contents
Editorial - Births, Dicks, Lucas-Clements, Mullett, Dennehy, Meade, Martin,
Teer, McDonnell, McBrian, Deane, Tiernan, Flynn, Scott, Creggan, Miller,
O'Callaghan, Roy, Flood, Devlin, Kerr, Lloyd, Semple, Hemmings, Connolly,
Gorton, Matchett, Burnett, Ormerod, Delaney, Thompson, Campbell, McVeigh,
Kavanagh, Kavanagh, Curley, Moore, O'Sullivan, Gilligan, Gilchrist,
Alexander, Gun Cuninghame - Marriages, O'Donovan-Templer, Beggs-Bedford,
Chavasse-Crozier, French-Maitland-Dougall, Mullin-Garrett, McKenna-Ormerod,
Martin-Goodwin, Teer-Rafferty, Farrell-Coles, O'Rourke-Taylor,
Bolger-Hegarty, Dwyer-Gallagher, McGrath-Comerford, Reid-Bishop (continued
here) - Retirements, J. P. F. Beamish, P. Mulcahy-Morgan - Obituaries,
A. J. Vernon, J. A. Meneice, T. King, J. L. Willis, W. Sullivan, Mrs. I. L.
Cronyn - Bandmasters of the Regiment
1st Battalion Notes - "H.Q." Company - Sp. Platoon - Sport - Signals Platoon
- M.T. Platoon - Orderly Room
The Right Reverend Stanley Betts, M.A., Bishop to Her Majesty's Forces,
talking to men of the Battalion in Tripoli
Photo: Army Public Relations
1st Battalion A Mixed bag 1. Sgt. Kerr training his section aboard "Empire
Skua" ("S" Platoon) 2. Some members of "B" Company in the Roman
Theatre at Leptis Magna 3. St. Patrick's Day, 1959, entering the Roman
Catholic Cathedral, Tripoli - Left to right: Sgt. Watson, Sgt. McLoughlin,
R.S.M. Cantley, Sgt. Kilgallon 4. Company group around Piper Campbell
before sailing to Cyprus 5. Major C. J. Major and Major P. J. C.
Trousdell going up to the start of the donkey race won by the latter
6. No. 1 Section, 10 Platoon, marching down the hill from Troodos Camp.
Another eight miles to go 7. Barrosa Day, 1959. Officers v. Sergeants
football match
Quartermaster's Department - Regimental Band - "A" Company - Ten Little
Irishmen - Drums and Pipes - "B" Company
The Regimental Band marching into Azzizia Barracks, Headquarters
Tripolitania District
Advertisements - Cyprus - Sport - "C" Company - Cyprus Journey - Irishmen
Enjoy Training Swap - "D" Company
Impressions of "D" Company's Two Weeks' Training at Homs
Lt.-Col. R. C. P. Jefferies presenting the cup for the winners of the S.M.G.
match to L/Cpl. W. Snoddy, "D" Company, at the District Rifle Meeting, 1959
Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess - Corporals' Mess - Sport - Weapon
Training
First Instruction in the latest model of the F.N. self-loading rifle at
Medenine Barracks, Tripoli
Left to right on firing point: Fus. A. Martin, Fus. A. Dempsey, C.S.M. A.
McGowan, Fus. T. Gates, Fus. E. Cleary
The Minstrel Boy (2/Lt. P. Wallace) singing the praises of the new S.L.R.
rifle to his platoon. Cyprus, July 1959
Tripolitania District Rifle Meeting - American team with members of "H.Q."
Company team
Battalion Statistics - An Ode to the Quartermaster - Queen's Birthday Parade
1959 - An Account of an Outward-Bound Course - Talking of Doctors -
Marriages, Woolhead-Needs, Meredith-Hart,
McDonnell-Robertson, Darby-Jones, Smyth-Hughes, Buckle-Ritchie, Tooms-Johnson
- Editor's Notes
Lt.-Gen. Sir Gerald Lathbury presenting to C/Sgt. J. Semple the Battalion
Rifle Shield; winners, "H.Q." 2
The Regimental Depot - Departures - The Royal Irish Fusiliers List of Depot
Commanders Since Foundation - Sergeants' Mess - Corporals' Mess
Investiture at Buckingham Palace
Photo: M. Haighton, 81 Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea, S.W.10
Left to right: Major H. J. P. Baxter, G.M., his
father, Lt.-Col. H. G. Baxter, Capt. John Gorman, M.B.E.,
M.C. (District Inspector R.U.C., Co. Armagh), his father, Major J. K.
Gorman, M.C. (formerly County Inspector R.U.C., Co.
Fermanagh), and Capt. H. K. P. Chavasse, M.B.E.
Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess, Regimental Depot, May 1959
Sport - Regimental Museum and Library - 5th Battalion, The Royal Irish
Fusiliers (T.A.) Editorial - Sergeants' Mess
Depot Shooting Team for N.I.D. Rifle Meeting 1959
Sitting (left to right): Fus. Mannix, Sgt. McCullough, Lt. Kilroy, Capt. Gun
Cuninghame, Sgt. Brown, Fus. Murphy
Standing (left to right): Fus. Nolan, Morley, Kellegher, Kelly (71), Smith,
Kelly (15), Cpl. Fann
Fus. Hobson and Major are not included in photographs
C.S.M. S. Lamrock, winner of the N.I.D. Rifle Meeting open championship
Photo: S. J. Allen, Pembroke Dock
Pipe-Major McCabe and Drum-Major Goddard at annual camp at Castlemartin
Sergeants' Mess continued - The Nijmegen Marches, 1959 - "S" Company Team -
Drums and Pipes - "A" and "H.Q." Companies - "B" Company - "C" Company - "D"
Company - "S" Company - M.M.G. Platoon - 3-in. Mortar Platoon - North Irish
Brigade - The Faugh-a-Ballagh Dinner Club - Regimental Association
R.Q.M.S. A. Moore, M.B.E. Photo: S. J.
Allen, Pembroke Dock
"S" Company team during the march
Regimental Association continued - Branch Notes - The Colour of the 70th
Demi-Brigade - New Zealand and Australia 1959
The Colonel of the Regiment addressing the Old Comrades
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