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    Paisley Barracks was a military installation in Paisley, Renfrewshire. The infantry barracks, which were built on the south side of the Glasgow Road in...
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    Paisley (/ˈpeɪzli/ PAYZ-lee; Scots: Paisley; Scottish Gaelic: Pàislig [ˈpʰaːʃlɪkʲ]) is a large town situated in the west central Lowlands of Scotland...
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    for occupation, and so the depots were initially stationed at Paisley Barracks in Paisley. Johnson, p. 264. The other two Hamilton regiments – the 73rd...
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    Glasgow on 12 November. They were quartered at Gallowgate Barracks with detachments at Paisley and Ayr. There they stayed until 9 September 1869 whence...
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  • and some Derry nationalists had advised against it. Supporters of Ian Paisley, led by Major Ronald Bunting, denounced the march as seditious and mounted...
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    Samuel Evans (VC) (category Military personnel from Paisley, Renfrewshire)
    in Paisley, Renfrewshire in 1821, the son of Anne and James Evens, a weaver. He initially followed in his father's footsteps as a weaver of Paisley shawls...
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    James McKechnie (category Military personnel from Paisley, Renfrewshire)
    2015, Kier Homes named a street in their Hawkhead Village development in Paisley, James McKechnie Avenue, in memory of him. His Victoria Cross is displayed...
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  • Regimental Headquarters at Leuchars Station 102 (Clyde) Field Squadron, in Paisley and Barnsford Bridge 103 (Tyne Electrical Engineers) Field Squadron, in...
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    was launched on 13 October 1984 sponsored by Mrs. Vicki Ann Paisley, wife of Melvyn R. Paisley assistant Secretary of the Navy, and commissioned on 27 September...
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    Ireland on 8 May 2007, with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley becoming First Minister. In 2008 and 2016, he was reappointed as deputy...
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    marked down as "pensioner". It is generally believed that he is buried in Paisley but this may be because a person with the same name died at the poor house...
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    Willie Gallacher (politician) (category Politicians from Paisley, Renfrewshire)
    one of the last Communist Members of Parliament. Gallacher was born in Paisley, Scotland, on 25 December 1881, the son of an Irish father and a Scottish...
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  • Corps Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers and 102 Corps Engineer Regiment (Paisley) The first CO was Lt Col Donald Macey. 432 Corps Engineer Regiment became...
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  • probably based on the regimental tartan. The club played out of Maryhill Barracks when based in Glasgow. Allanvale F.C. was from the village of Blackford...
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    Desmond Boal QC, a unionist barrister who had been first chairman of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party. At the time, Boal was co-operating with Seán...
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    tensions, and affirmed he was proud of his connection to the town. Ian Paisley was eventually made a freeman of Ballymena in December 2004 instead. Ballymena...
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  • Daughter", "Flower of London" 549. "The Red River Shore" (Laws M26) 550. "The Paisley Officer" 551. "Lisbon", "William and Nancy/Polly" 552. "The Silk Merchant's...
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  • War Graves Commission. Retrieved 9 December 2018. Smith, James Meikle. "Paisley's Fallen in the War 1914–18" (PDF). p. 134. Retrieved 22 January 2021. "Charles...
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    Paul McGillion (category Male actors from Paisley, Renfrewshire)
    Atlantis as Dr. Carson Beckett. McGillion was born on January 5, 1969 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His family moved to Canada when he was two years...
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    stated they are based alongside the Special Air Service at Stirling Lines barracks, Credenhill in Herefordshire. The SRR was formed to meet a demand for a...
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    Reserve units of the British Army. Regimental Headquarters, at Finsbury Barracks, City of London Headquarters Squadron Honourable Artillery Company Band...
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    (since demolished), the 6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion at High Street in Paisley, the 7th Battalion at Princes Street in Stirling, the 8th (Argyllshire)...
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    campaign against Northern Ireland. In April 1966, loyalists led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution...
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  • South while taking part in an attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks in Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, during the Border Campaign. Several...
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  • officers. During this period Ian Paisley announced to the press that soldiers in Ballymena had been requested to report to barracks to be disarmed prior to the...
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    campaign on the British mainland was ongoing, with the bombing of Chelsea Barracks in October 1981, the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings in July 1982...
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    including the Ulster Protestant Volunteers, a paramilitary group led by Ian Paisley. Marches marking the Ulster Protestant celebration The Twelfth in July...
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    stopped the traffic in the city centre. Many wept openly. The Reverend Ian Paisley led the mourners in laying dozens of wreaths. The crowd observed a two-minute...
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    more exhibition matches. But on March 29, Robinson disappeared from his barracks. When he woke up on April 5 in Fort Jay Hospital on Governor's Island,...
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    (1889). "Edinburghshire: Of its establishment as a shire". Caledonia. Paisley: Alexander Gardner. p. 579. Retrieved 24 December 2022. "Local Government...
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