Soldier – August 2019

THE BIG

PICTURE

Northern Ireland, 1969-2007

Op Banner at 50

THIS month marks half a century

since troops were first deployed

on the streets of Belfast in what

would become the British Army’s

longest continuous campaign.

Some 300,000 personnel served

in Northern Ireland over the

subsequent 38 years, and 1,441

lost their lives. These images

were captured by Soldier during

The Troubles:

1 Ardoyne Road, Belfast in 2001

• seconds before a bomb injured
  three Royal Ulster Constabulary
  officers

2 Sappers from 25 Engineer

Regiment remove the last of the

hilltop watch towers in South

Armagh, 2006

3 A Black Watch soldier at a

vehicle checkpoint on the main

road from Belfast to Dublin, 1991

4 Troops of 58 (Eyre) Light Air

Defence Battery, Royal Artillery

on patrol in Belfast, 1973

5 Clean-up after rioting in Belfast,

1969

6 Foot patrol in Belfast, 1981

Pictures: Soldier archive

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