Inniskillings to Berlin

Event

Fri, 09/03/1965 - Tue, 10/03/1967

Spandau Innisks Following a period of pre-deployment leave, the 1st Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers reassembled in Gravesend on 3 September 1965, to prepare for the main body move by air to West Berlin Garrison in October. At the end of the Berlin tour, the Battalion moved from Brooke Barracks, Spandau to Norton Barracks Worcester, England in October 1967. (Right, Inniskillings Guard, commanded by Lt R J B Heard)

Please click on the attachment below to read the story 'The Divided City - Berlin' by Major James Thompson who was a young officer at this time in Berlin and became the Regimental Signals Officer.

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the_divided_city_berlin_1965-7.pdf

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(Brigadier Nelson Russell, Commander 38 (Irish) Brigade, 1942-44)

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