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Right, hopefully this text will explain what I'm looking for.
As you can see along the top the battalion has been split as per the first tour.
It would be really good if folk could contribute - just stories about patrolling, guard duty standby - just the general stuff we all experienced during that four months.
The bottom line is, I can't forget that tour and next year is the 40th anniverary of it. Let's show the current regiment, ex Argylls and family that we don't forget and we never will.
The website is not public just now so it will only be us looking at it until it is decided to open it to the internet.
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39 years ago this week end 3 Argylls killed in saracen explosion
Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 18:57
This Sat and Sun 10th and 11th of September 1972 will be the 39th Anniversary of the deaths of the three Argylls killed just outside Dungannon.Pte,s Duncan McPhee and Douglas Richmond killed on the 10th and L/Cpl William McIntyre killed on the 11th September, all members of A.Coy. And not forgetting the other Argylls killed in the first tour of N.Ireland.
Take a minute out of your time this weekend to remember them
The son of an Argyll Veteran stopped by the roadside to plant 3 crosses at the scene of the saracen explosion, 10th Sept 1972, between Benburb and Dungannon.
It was a somber moment as the young man laid the crosses which he had been given by his father, who had got the crosses and wrote the inscriptions on each cross with the boys names and date of the incident, and sent them over to him. He could only spend a short time there as there is still ill feeling towards the troops in Eglish which is just up the road from Benburb and is a busy road going into Benburb and Eglish.
Private Duncan McPhee
Private Douglas Richmond
L/Cpl William McIntyre
Ne Obliviscaris
"I remember that night well as I was in 3pln a coy, we actually heard the explosion in the camp but no-one knew where it was, not even the police, it was a while before the public phoned in to say where it was." Adam
Right considering this website has only just appeared in the last month there havestill been over 3000 visits. A lot of people are adding comments. What we need now are stories. If we get more stories then we get more comments and more people remember things. By July next year it would be really good to have a website telling a story about 1972 that people will say 'Argylls really don't forget their fallen'
July 1972 the 1st Ban Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders embarked on theiir first active service tour of Northern Ireland.
During this period lasting four months, eight Highlanders were killed. This music was composed, recently, for this website, in the memory of those brave men.
Right, hopefully this text will explain what I'm looking for.
As you can see along the top the battalion has been split as per the first tour.
It would be really good if folk could contribute - just stories about patrolling, guard duty standby - just the general stuff we all experienced during that four months.
The bottom line is, I can't forget that tour and next year is the 40th anniverary of it. Let's show the current regiment, ex Argylls and family that we don't forget and we never will.
The website is not public just now so it will only be us looking at it until it is decided to open it to the internet.
The son of an Argyll Veteran stopped by the roadside to plant 3 crosses at the scene of the saracen explosion, 10th Sept 1972, between Benburb and Dungannon.
