Reference
X550/2/71/5
Title
1st Battalion Magazine and Record No 5
Date free text
May 1921
Scope and Content
Contents include: editorial; sporting notes; the battalion in Ireland (inc. reports of ambushes at Ballinwing and Gloscrummon in March 1921); history of the Regiment (1914-1918); photographs (Major and Bt. Lt-Col. W. Allason, D.S.O., tallest and shortest soldiers); future of the magazine; the Black Amber Jazz Band; musketry notes; education notes; news from other battalions; entertainments; Old Comrades Association. Obituaries: Lieutenant E.C.Wilson "foully murdered in a Sinn Fein ambush, whilst gallantly doing his duty in maintaining law and order in Ireland"; Captain F. V. Parker. List of subscribers to regimental war memorial. Personal news: engagements; marriages; births; death notices: Captain F.V. Parker, A.S.A. Nixon.
Level of description
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