Can you help with the names
missing from this photo of 1st IG football
team, possibly 1951 in Tunisia and
also confirm names already given.
Buzzer Walsh. E
Foy. (??). (??). Jimmy Wilson. Sgt Woodham. Paddy Rafter. (??).
Front Row
(??). D/Sgt Leckie.
Fr Casey. CO Michael Gordon Watson. Adj' Will Berridge. RSM George Howe.
(??).
Hi Ivor, The
Mick on extreme right of front row is Sgt Jimmy Agnew, who was also in the
sports team,who regularly beat me in the high hurdles. I was with the 1st
Battalion in Tripoli and we returned home in April 1949.George Howe was
R.S.M.and Gordon Watson was C.O. I rejoined the Btn in Hubblerath Germany in
November 1951 and "Turk"Rooney was R.S.M. and George Howe was Capt
Quartermaster.So my guess is that the photo was taken in Tripoli. Regards
George Murphy (Sgt.) 25/01/03
NOTE:
Bill Bourke, who is a regular visitor and contributor to this site, doubts very
much that this photograph was taken in Tripoli on account of the foliage in the
background which is not typical of the Tripoli he remembers where he played
Right Wing for the Micks Soccer team.
He says : " We returned from Tripoli
in 1949.
The 1st Batn. were in Germany in 1951, in a location near
Dusseldorf, so its most likely that this is where the photo was
taken. Some of the names ring a vague
bell. I was dashing back and forth at this time which could explain why I was
not in the photo.
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