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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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