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A new campain to promote Argylls Museum |
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A NEW campaign to promote visitor attractions in Bo’ness - and other parts of Forth Valley - was launched this week.
Forth’s Timeline focuses on the following attractions: The Regimental Museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Kilmadock Information & Heritage Centre, Clackmannanshire Tower Trail, Clackmannan Tower, Menstrie Castle, Sauchie Tower, Alloa Tower, Castle Campbell and Garden, Dollar Museum, Tullibody Heritage Centre, Callendar House, Kinneil Museum, Grangemouth Museum, The Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway, Birkhill Fireclay Mine and the University of Stirling Art Collection.
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Troops describe life on the front in Afghanistan |
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 Argylls in Kent
KOS Media's Jamie McGinnes is currently with Kent troops serving in Afghanistan.
Soldiers from the Canterbury-based Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5 Scots) have given an insight into the “Wild West” territory that is currently their home in southern Afghanistan.
Delta Company of the Argylls operate in the tinderbox of Musa Qala, a town to the north west of Helmand Province . It was fiercely fought over last year and the Afghan National Army (ANA) supported by the International Stabilisation Assistance Force (ISAF) forced the Taliban to leave in December.
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Media reporter targeted by Taliban sniper |
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 the shelter
Soldiers from Kent were under heavy mortar and small arms fire at a remote outpost in Afghanistan for several hours on Wednesday .
Apache attack helicopters were called in at Roshan Tower, near Musa Qala, in the afternoon after Taliban fighters harassed British troops with sniper rifles before firing a series of highly accurate mortar bombs.
The tower has a small garrison of men, including members of the 2nd Battalion The Princess of Wales’ Royal Regiment, Kent’s county regiment, and a mortar section from Canterbury-based Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (5 Scots).
Full Story: Your Canterbury
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WAR Veteran's Keepsake Replaced |
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 Presenting the certificate
Jacqueline’s father, Greenock-born John McEwen, now aged 85 and living in Shirebrook, Notts, was presented with the “Welcome Home” certificate by the then Provost of Greenock, Daniel Morris, when he returned to the area after his service in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1946.
Mr McEwen had framed and treasured the certificate
for more than sixty years, but it was lost during a house move. This
prompted Jacqueline to contact Councillor Rebecchi to see if there was
anything he could do to help.
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A Long,long war. Voices from The British Army in NI 1969-98 |
 The British Army was sent into Northern Ireland on August 14, 1969 by the Wilson government as law and order had broken down and the population (mainly Catholics) and property were at grave risk. Between then and 1998 some 300,000 British troops served in Northern Ireland. This is their story – in their own words – from first to last. There were way too many contributions for the first volume so a second book is underway.
What is important is that you write as you wish; try and remember the sights, sounds, even the smells, but more importantly, the thoughts which went through your mind at the time. If you want to write for the second book, it is laid out as follows:
- Part One: Belfast (separate chapters on the 'Murph, Turf Lodge, Andy's Town, Falls etc)
- Part Two: Londonderry separate chapters on Creggan, Bogside, Waterside, Co Londonderry etc)
- Part Three: Rural Ulster chapters on XMG, Newry, Belleek, Forkhill etc)
- Part Four: Mainland/European attacks
- Part Five: Loved Ones
You can write all you want and if you want to be annonymous, then I have no problem with that; please let me know.
visit the Website: http://www.forgotten-voices.co.uk/
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