Bala Bredin
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Major-General Humphrey Edgar Nicholson Bredin,, known as Bala Bredin, was a British Army officer whose military service took him from 1930s Palestine via Dunkirk, North Africa and Italy to the Cold Wa
Officers of the Royal Ulster Rifles awaiting evacuation at Bray Dunes near Dunkirk, May 1940. The photograph is credited to Bredin.
London Irish Rifles
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The London Irish Rifles was a reserve infantry regiment and then company of the British Army. The unit's final incarnation was as D Company, the London Regiment. On 1 April 2022 soldiers in the compan
Bala Bredin
…he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After recovering from his wounds sustained in May, Bredin was placed in command of the 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles. The battalion were attached to the 9th Lancers and deployed in armoured personnel carriers known as Kangaroos. In this role they captured bridges over…
16th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers (London Irish), c1895
Cap badge variations between WW1 (Left) and WW2 (Right)
The Pipe Band of the London Irish Rifles on parade with their Irish Wolfhound mascot, near Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 31 December 1940.
A casualty is brought back across the River Reno during operations by 'C' Company of the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles to establish a bridgehead across the river, 6 April 1945.