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Major-General Sir Eric Stanley Girdwood, was a British military officer who served as General Officer Commanding the Northern Ireland District from 1931 to 1935.
Sir Eric Girdwood Colonels of the Cameronians
King George V with Major General Girdwood, GOC 74th (Yeomanry) Division, and Major General Thomas Lambert, GOC 32nd Division, during his visit to the Second Army, possibly La Brearde, 6 August 1918.
The Cameronians was a rifle regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation o
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…Belfast Royal Academy, Girdwood was commissioned into the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment in March 1896. before transferring into the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and the Regular Army, in May 1899. He served in the Second Boer War in South Africa with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment. They took part in the…
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Memorial on Spion Kop
1st Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on the Western Front, 1914/15
The Cameronians War Memorial in Kelvingrove Park