28-10-20, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Fatboy Ken
Hiya Philip, Just seen this, All RCT Sqns were brought up to tactical strength when tours of NI were taken, as most in BAOR were only on peacetime strength. So yes they would has had a mixture of differing troops who were attached to each RCT Sqn.
We took over from 4 Sqn RCT in April 1981-August 1981 and had taken on the hungerstriker problems in the Maze that occurred at the time. We lost Paul "Geordie" Bulman at Bessbrook on the 19th May (3 days short of his 20th birthday).
Ken (The Fatboy)
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I'll see if I can dig up some info for you later, ....
PPS
4 Sqn RCT was part of 2 Armd Div Tpt Regt RCT (2nd Armoured Division Transport Regiment (Royal Corps of Transport)
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CORRECTION
(This should read Bessbrook, as Geordie was based in the Mill and not as stated XMG, which is a different location, I have updated this statement today 28/10/2020.)
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