RRC Baggallay served in the Irish Guards and was successively captain and major, seeing service at the Somme and Ypres.
This bridge was taken on the evening of 10 September 1944 by the Irish Guards under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J.O.E Vandeleur.
Educated in part at Buckingham College, Harrow, Served in the Irish Guards.
He retired from the military in 1948, with the rank of Major, late of the Irish Guards.
The bugle call sampled throughout the song is "Regimental March", performed by HM Irish Guards.
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Also includes a sample of "Regimental March" bugle call performed by HM Irish Guards, licensed courtesy of LTM Music Published Limited.
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George Henry Morris, (16 July 1872 – 1 September 1914) the first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle.
In addition, there were also the pipes and drums of the Scots Guards, Irish Guards, Royal Gurkha Rifles, Scottish Officers Training Corps, South African Irish Regiment, the Rats of Tobruk and the City of Wellington pipe band.
His youngest son Sir Lionel Stopford was a Colonel and Honorary Major-General in the Derby Regiment and Irish Guards.
It was the scene of fierce fighting during World War 1, and is mentioned in the poem "The Irish Guards" by Rudyard Kipling.
The removal of Lance Corporal Malone's body to a Catholic church in Ballyfermot was attended by hundreds of people, including Charlie O'Connor, a local TD, whose father had served in the Irish Guards.
Once the bridge was secure, men of the 615th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, set about repairing it, while the Irish Guards secured a bridgehead along the N69 main road towards Valkenswaard.
While the Welsh Guards engaged the German forces around Hechtel, the Irish Guards advanced rapidly north-east through the villages of Eksel, Overpelt and Neerpelt, and launched their combined infantry-tank assault, with artillery support, from the grounds of the zinc processing factory in Overpelt.