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1971-1973. A British soldier's archive from service in Northern Ireland.
Estimate:
€300 - €500
Sold
€2,100
Timed Auction
The Eclectic Collector
Description
Description: Includes pocket card instructions for opening fire and for making arrests, a printed derogratory verse on 'Oireland' and Derry people, a list of 'IRA Front Organisations' including Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Association for Legal Justice, etc., instructions on Booby-trapped cars, IRA signs to be looked for on buildings, diagrams of incidents at Ballsbridge, Forkhill, and Mullan, Enniskillen, mostly stamped 'RESTRICTED'. Also a large military map of Derry used by foot patrols, with key nationalist areas highlighted, British Army pamphlets - 'Londonderry Football Bomb Attack' and 'Throwing Stones is Dangerous', and Weekly Reports 1973, propaganda pamphlets with praise for Army in Northern Ireland, GOC's Christmas Message IRA 'Volunteer' 29 February1972, Also a Loyalist flag, Orange Volunteers recruiting pamphlet, UDR booklet, brass RMP shoulder badge, receipts for restaurants, ticket to a dance, etc. British military documents are rarely seen at auction.
Condition
Mainly very good.
Provenance
A retired member of the Royal Military Police, who served in Northern Ireland in the 1970s.