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Operation Banner was the operational name for the ... the Parachute Regiment was redeployed outside urban areas and the brigadier at 3 Infantry Brigade, Tom Longland ...
The IRA claimed they machine-gunned and killed undercover operatives in the hidden roof part of the van, the 3rd Battalion of the brigade shot up the Massage Parlour. The IRA claimed they had killed five undercover soldiers, the British only admitted to one killing, the driver shot dead at Twinbrook.
The 19th Brigade is an Army Reserve formation of the British Army.As the 19th Infantry Brigade, it fought in the First and Second World War.. The formation became 19th Light Brigade in 2005, and moved to Northern Ireland following the end of Operation Banner and "normalisation" of British military operations in the province.
Over the next 30 years, the regiment deployed sub-units on Operation Banner, providing support in Northern Ireland. In 1991, the Regimental Headquarters, with 3 and 16 Squadrons plus 414 Tank Transporter Unit, deployed to Saudi Arabia as part of Operation GRANBY during the liberation of Kuwait. [ 4 ]
Pages in category "British Army in Operation Banner" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total. ... 0–9. 3rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom ...
On 10 September 1972, an active service unit (ASU) of the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade carried out a landmine attack against a British Army mobile patrol, along a small road in the rural village of Sanaghanroe near the town of Dungannon in County Tyrone.
The Warrenpoint ambush, [9] also known as the Narrow Water ambush, [10] the Warrenpoint massacre [11] or the Narrow Water massacre, [12] was a guerrilla attack [13] by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979.
The sniper attack on a checkpoint at Newry killed Constable Brian Woods and was officially reported in an IRA South Down Brigade statement, [34] but a high-profile IRA member from Dromintee, identified by Toby Harnden as a South Armagh Brigade volunteer known as "The Surgeon", was identified by the author as the mastermind behind the shooting. [35]