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Re: Bog Soldier WW2
« Reply #9 on: Friday 23 June 17 13:50 BST (UK) »
Southern Ireland was neutral in WW2 this period was known as "The Emergency":-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(Ireland)



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Re: Bog Soldier WW2
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 29 June 17 23:37 BST (UK) »
Quote from: healyjfch on Monday 19 June 17 08:11 BST (UK)
He was born in 1920. Too old for Boy soldier. I'm now thinking that Bog soldier was a local name for men employed during the war to work at turf cutting.
Not too old, There were still Boy Service units in the British Army into the 1950s. I recall visiting one, at Beachley, near Chepstow, in 1953.
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