Irish Guards

saintconor · 27-03-2008, 01:23 AM

A new website i'm working on in my spare time. In time it will include a brief history of the Irish Guards during WW2. Should then prove handy for research.

Conor

A History Of The Irish Guards | From its formation in 1900 until present day

Owen · 27-03-2008, 08:49 AM

Good Luck with the website.
Seem to have quite an Irish Guards feel to this site of late.

saintconor · 27-03-2008, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Owen D

Good Luck with the website.
Seem to have quite an Irish Guards feel to this site of late.

Thats cause the Micks are the best!

Gotthard Heinrici · 27-03-2008, 12:48 PM

Go on the Micks indeed!

dbf · 27-03-2008, 02:52 PM

Hi Conor,
Have started a thread about 3 Bn IG in Unit Histories and will be adding more. Hope it will be useful. Am also working on a project - for my father collating his photos and recollections.
Good luck with the project.
Up the Micks,
dbf

Gotthard Heinrici · 27-03-2008, 03:02 PM

We recently discovered that my Great Uncle was a Private with 1st Battalion Irish Guards and died in 1917. Thanks to Croonaert, Owen and Others I have now have a wealth of info on him.

geoff501 · 27-03-2008, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by saintconor

Thats cause the Micks are the best!

Yep, got some Mick ancestry in me.

dbf · 27-03-2008, 04:00 PM

Hi

My grandfather 4565 / 2714280 W Barbour was also in 1 Bn having enlisted in 1913, discharged 1925. I have yet to discover why he got his medals for IBn and 2Bn. His IG records are incomplete, as he also enlisted with RA in 1939.

The war diary for the dates given, show that some men were returned to England because of injuries and "bad teeth".

Dbf

27-03-2008, 01:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
saintconor Junior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: West Midlands Via Derry City Posts: 16	Irish Guards A new website i'm working on in my spare time. In time it will include a brief history of the Irish Guards during WW2. Should then prove handy for research. Conor A History Of The Irish Guards \| From its formation in 1900 until present day __________________ Remembering: 6978937 Fusilier Alexander Hegarty - 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - KIA Burma April 1942

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Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,252	Go on the Micks indeed! __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

27-03-2008, 03:02 PM	#6 (permalink)
Gotthard Heinrici Ostfront is where its at! Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 3,252	We recently discovered that my Great Uncle was a Private with 1st Battalion Irish Guards and died in 1917. Thanks to Croonaert, Owen and Others I have now have a wealth of info on him. __________________ *"The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse."* - General Heinz Guderian "With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist." - General Blumentritt "In all my years as a soldier, I have never seen me fight so hard." Lieutenant General Wilhelm Bittrich - Commander of II SS Panzer Korps - (Commenting on the British Paratroopers at Arnhem) - September 1944 "Had Clark given more heed to Juin's views...the savage battles of Cassino would probably never have been fought and the venerable house of St Benedict would have been unscathed" Rudolf Böhmler - 1st Fallschirmjäger Division - 1944 (After the bombing of Monte Cassino)

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dbf Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Co Down Posts: 395	Hi My grandfather 4565 / 2714280 W Barbour was also in 1 Bn having enlisted in 1913, discharged 1925. I have yet to discover why he got his medals for IBn and 2Bn. His IG records are incomplete, as he also enlisted with RA in 1939. The war diary for the dates given, show that some men were returned to England because of injuries and "bad teeth". Dbf Last edited by dbf; 27-03-2008 at 09:40 PM.

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27-03-2008, 08:49 AM	#2 (permalink)
Owen Top Moose Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs Posts: 8,242	Good Luck with the website. Seem to have quite an Irish Guards feel to this site of late.

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dbf Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Co Down Posts: 395	Hi Conor, Have started a thread about 3 Bn IG in Unit Histories and will be adding more. Hope it will be useful. Am also working on a project - for my father collating his photos and recollections. Good luck with the project. Up the Micks, dbf

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