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Subject: 'Butlins Bally-Kinnler Style'

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Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 12:43:47 03/20/05 Sun

Several things remind me of that location. The main one being awoken in the very early hours of the morning to be told that we were going into the 'Internment'business! Whereupon we were detailed to strip out everything from these messun huts and around six o'clock the Engineers turned up and started to erect 'Goon' towers and run dannet wire around this compound also hessian screening to stop the media and press from taking photographs or filming anything that was happening in this restricted area. The RMP's and various other units turned up and by ten o'clock the first batch of these detainee's turned up. Everything went like clockwork. Only Army organisation could have achieved that in so short a space of time!...These Paddy's were being lifted and transported in from all over the Province. On reflection these many years later on the subject of Internment I think the theory was correct but the results were not what the Authorities expected.Yes they had taken these key-players off the streets,but it didn't have the lasting effect in curtailing the activities of both factions of terrorists from continuing the War,such as it was in them days!....What do you think?
Another incident that also occurred about that time concerned a character from the Bty named Willy Morgan who unintentionally drank Jeyes fluid in a cold cup of coffee while under the influence of alcohol!...How this happened I still do not know to this day,but this man nearly lost his life through this prank if that was what it was!..Willy thankfully survived and I remember meeting him one last time many years later in Woolwich while serving with the Garrison and him being on the MT staff of the Depot. I remember joking with him that he must have the cleanest guts in the British Army!...We are still trying to locate him today!....We do know that he was originally from the Chester area. Any information would be greatfully received by all who knew him and wishing to contact him wherever he maybe!..........

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