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Brits are my lads! Served with them in Hellmand solid bunch true warriors!and British presence in my homeland makes me sleep at night i know my lads will help when the shit hits the fan!!learn from Estonians to embrace the cold make it your friend!

I was A Coy, 2RGJ, we took over 45 Commando up in West Belfast in November 1981, with part of Andytown, Turf Lodge with the Monagh bypass, Ballymurphy, New Barnsley etc as our TAOR, we heard about this RPG attack of course, now I can put a face and name to the attack, he is a brave guy, much respect to him, especially the calm matter of fact way he talks about it today.👏🏼 Glad he survived for his wife and baby!👏🏼🙏🏼 This was a nice piece, I certainly appreciated it, as we are veterans of a long, deadly but forgotten conflict, so thank you! 👍🏽🙏🏼 We lost 3 guys during our tour of West Belfast 1981-82, in the Crocus Street Ambush, Danny Holland, Nick Malakos and Tony Rapley, may all comrades, from whichever regiment or Corps, who didn't return from Ulster, including my friend Matt Maddocks RIP! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Never forgotten! ❤ And to all the many wounded from the conflict, you are not forgotten either! 👏🏼🙏🏼 We need more vids like this as we are all getting on now! Celer et Audax ⚔️🔥

Thank to all NATO service members.

What is it like serving on NATO's eastern boundary as part of the alliance's forward defense? This film shows what the First Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers did when they were in role for a winter tour between 2023-24. Have a look.

Anyone remember that slogan - 'Thirteen dead and not forgotten, We got nineteen and Mountbatten'?

The IRA were cowardly scumbags, God Bless the security forces for their service over here trying to hold the line . No Surrender

Legend. What a great interview

No one was ordered on to hunger strike

I grew up in Belfast in the 70s & 80s and these guys have no idea of the fear and misery they brought to indigenous neighbourhoods in Ireland North

I was there 3 rrf

Not the only ones killed on Drummacaval. There was an incident with a baby monitor. Another with a conveniently positioned scrapped transit van giving shelter to a patrol in the pouring rain right on the border below nr. Scrap metal merchants house and then there was the ied the other side of drumnacaval killing 2 RUC and the OC company XMG.

Top Lads.

My father was in Aden in the Army in 1967. I heard all the terrible details of the Massacre. A true brave man emerged and restored pride and authority.The British establishment of shiney arses hated him but there was none finer a Leader than Colin Campbell Mitchell Lt Colonel of the A.S.Highlanders. His career was finished effectively by his actions.The Jocks and Mitchell showed the Fish and Chip Regiments what "On having been a Soldier" meant.

What a waste .These men were used by a corrupt political class ,who then sold their country out by allowing mass unwanted immigration.

horrible that 3 young men lost their lives. the partition of ireland was a disaster. As soon as you put ground troops from another nation in another mans country its a recipe for disaster and men will take up arms to free their land and that understandable. RIP to them young lads a crying shame they were sent to ireland in the first place.

How do they know it was 12 IRA?

What does he say at 4:25 I can't quite make it out?

Thats what happens when you steal part of another country 🇮🇪

Johnny Adairs C Coy fired the first RPG7 in the conflict.

What a terrible waste. He shouldn’t have been there. Never allow yourself be used for another’s political gain.

The Provisional leadership never ordered any of their POW's to go on Hunger Strike . Totally inaccurate. Óglach Bobby Sands was OC and lead his men from the front into the Hunger Strike . Nobody was ordered to go on Hunger Strike . The participants all volunteered.

No one should've died Republican terrorists murdered Loyalist terrorists murdered Security forces who colluded with terrorists also murdered Murder is murder in the eyes of God No one has the right to take the life of another Surrender your life to The LORD JESUS CHRIST For only HE can save you A United Ireland can't save you The United Kingdom can't save you Only JESUS CHRIST can save you John 3:16

An army on its own ground will always have the advantage over one that isn’t!

Did you ever ask wTF you were doing there in the first place ?

Them soldiers were good men . Doing their job in crazy times. God bless them all and help them overcome any bad memories of that time.

My ol man was RWF regiment based in derry from 72 onwards and he still to this day wont talk about the bad things that happened, he only talks about the carry on that went on, any time i asked him about the bad stuff he clammed up and changed the subject😢

What was a british officer doing in the republic of ireland? In enemy territory during the troubles. Not very smart

The bandits were not the residents the bandits were the invader The brits are as bad as the Israelis with that bollocks . Invade someone's land and them call them terrorists

…them amateur lads held their own against a professional army.

I mind this happening..a police land rover was also hit a few whiles later..that street is called RPG Avenue strangely enough. Thanks for sharing.

Actually the IRA leadership outside of prison initially refused to support the hunger strike because too much momentum had already been built up from the 1980 hunger strike and they believed they would not be able to win the public’s support again. The hunger strike was a decision of the IRA inside of long kesh and was not ordered from outside.

A country we never should have been in. Northern Ireland should be given back to the Irish

Thanks for your service lads, if only the Government took the handcuffs off you so you could actually do a soldiers job properly ! The terrorists boast about being in a war, but when you hit back they cried “shoot to kill” I wish you a long peaceful life chaos 🇬🇧🙏

Fantastic temperament and character

The alliance made the region ten times worse

Seen the aftermath of this.. was at Daly's garage..

what a hero what a man . My heart goes out to you. God Bless from a fellow veteran

We have a foe in common now,

Jaw dropping ignorance...

And he is the best dad ❤❤❤

Hardly the best place for a wedding in enemy territory!

No no no, the PIRA never ordered anyone to go on hunger strike, it was a prisoner decision only! I do i know? I was an INLA Pow at the time.

I’m ex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💂‍♀️,I was in Belfast when this happened,I thought it was Springfield road and we never used pigs round there we preferred to walk…same in the Ardoyne but the lads who took over from us in Aldergrove ( RGJ) never took our advice and lost some lads who had left the back doors opened as they travelled through the area…tough times indeed.

How would you react when you get shot at, or worse still shot and injured? RPG Attack is the story of Phil Hartley and how he responded to being rocketed while serving in Belfast. If ever the phrase "calm under fire" needs an example, this is it.

This is real stoicism. I have nothing but admiration for this man's determination to get on with his life. Beechmount Avenue was called RPG Avenue. I have very vivid memories of that day. Belfast erupted with buses etc on fire everywhere and large scale rioting.I was a fourteen year old schoolboy, and somehow managed to walk four miles from school across town which was really hairy. I remember turning my school blazer inside out and taking my tie off so I wouldn't get jumped. It was terrifying. But really just another day in my childhood in Belfast.

Have to ask but why was he targeted on his wedding day was it a revenge attack

As an irish republican it is sad that anyone an irish soldier or British soldier should have lost their lives in this conflict, young men from england were tossed into the melting pot off war without knowledge of why they served here and the british government sent them to die in a foreign country, im glad there is peace now as we have watched to many die in this war and i hope one day this country can be free from any interference from britain RIP to all combatants who died

Another fusileer story taken from the same time they were stationed at Unity Flats -- the shooting dead of Christopher Quinn - a civilian as were most of the British army victims.The MoD knew that the man shot dead at the flats by the fusileers in November 1971 was innocent, but his family was never told.

Are you certain of the date of this incident? Was it not Sunday 23rd November 1975 ?

You have to wonder who the Adj went to get permission to allow British Army Officer to marry there in the first place How easy it was for the IRA to set this up Location time and Date and who the officer was ? madness really to allow such a wedding Tragic for the chaps who were there and i am pleased they had a happy life after the event