Belfast Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South...
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Belfast in 1941 during World War II Belfast Commando, a former light infantry regiment of the South African Army HMS Belfast (C35), a Town-class cruiser launched...
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October 2021. The Belfast Telegraph, 27 March 1973. Belfast Telegraph, 27 April 1974 Belfast Daily (4 September 2013). "RED HAND COMMANDO KILLER LOSES SECTARIAN...
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Winston Churchill Rea (category Red Hand Commando members)
as Winkie Rea, was a Northern Irish loyalist from Belfast. He was the leader of the Red Hand Commando (RHC), a paramilitary organisation that was active...
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Alrewas, Staffordshire The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London The Cenotaph, Belfast Commando Memorial, Spean Bridge, Highland Great Eastern Railway War Memorial...
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40 Commando RM is a battalion-sized formation of the British Royal Marines and subordinate unit within UK Commando Force, the principal Commando formation...
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Street, Belfast. 12 April: The "Red Hand Commando" claimed responsibility for a gun and bomb attack on the Strand Bar, Anderson Street, Belfast. Six Catholic...
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The Commando System was a mostly voluntary, part-time force of the South African Army, but in their role as local militia the units were often deployed...
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Beaufort Commando Part of Natal Command in late 1970s. Originally named Empangeni/Richards Bay Commando. The unit was renamed Insele Commando on March 2...
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Battle of Bergendal (redirect from Battle of Belfast)
North of the railway line, in a semi-circle around the town of Belfast, the Lydenburg commando was to be found on the farms Spitskop, Zuikerboschkop and Langkloof...
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east Belfast UVF". Belfast Telegraph. Archived from the original on 25 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019. "Nine men charged after east Belfast UVF police...
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in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Red Hand Commando (RHC), for a time it described...
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Belfast (also known as eMakhazeni) is a small town in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. It is situated in the eMakhazeni Local Municipality in the Nkangala...
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Shankill Road (redirect from Shankill, Belfast)
Seanchill, meaning 'old church') is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland. It runs through the working-class, predominantly...
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Paddy Mayne (category British Army Commandos officers)
the newly formed No. 11 (Scottish) Commando. He first saw action in June 1941 as a second-lieutenant with 11 Commando during the Syria–Lebanon Campaign...
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Antrim Road (redirect from Newington, Belfast)
Skegoneill Avenue was killed at his home by the Red Hand Commando. Although the North Belfast Brigade was not often the most active of the UDA's six area...
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Beijing City Rail (BCR) Belfast Community Radio, a radio station that broadcast in Belfast, Northern Ireland which relaunched as Belfast CityBeat in 1996 107...
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leading member of the Red Hand Commando Billy Elliot (UDA), senior member of the Ulster Defence Association; East Belfast brigadier William Elliott (disambiguation)...
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Bloody Friday (1972) (redirect from Belfast Bomb Blitz)
given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty...
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Billy Elliot (RHC) (category Red Hand Commando members)
organisation. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in about 1964 to an Ulster Protestant family, Elliot joined the Red Hand Commando (RHC), a loyalist paramilitary...
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Irish People's Liberation Organisation (redirect from Irish Peoples Liberation Organisation Belfast Brigade)
attacked a pub on the predominantly Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast, killing Red Hand Commando (RHC) member Stephen McRea and injuring several people. A...
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with the government of Ireland in several areas under the terms of the Belfast Agreement. The Republic of Ireland also has a consultative role on non-devolved...
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Gerry Adams (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Belfast constituencies (since 1922))
election as a Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency but followed the policy of abstentionism. Adams first...
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All the volunteers within the RMR must pass through the same rigorous commando course as the regulars. The former may be civilians with no previous military...
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time passed. On 14 September 2002, East Belfast LVF man Stephen Warnock was killed by the Red Hand Commando and immediately afterwards Adair, seeing...
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Peace lines (redirect from Belfast Peace Lines)
been built at urban interface areas in Belfast and elsewhere. The majority of peace walls are located in Belfast, but they also exist in other regions...
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William Smith (loyalist) (category Red Hand Commando members)
capacities for at least forty years. Smith was born in Mountjoy Street on Belfast's Shankill Road into a poor Ulster Protestant family, the son of shipyard...
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No. 12 Commando was a battalion-sized commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in 1940 in Northern Ireland, they carried...
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September 2002, when East Belfast LVF member Stephen Warnock was killed by the Red Hand Commando. Adair spread a rumour that East Belfast Brigade chief Jim Gray...
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prospect of an all-Ireland republic. Within the framework of the 1998 Belfast Agreement, which concluded three decades of political violence, unionists...
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