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WW2 Army Record
« on: Sunday 06 September 09 15:40 BST (UK) »
I have asked this question on another post along with other questions so thought I would post on its own:

I am trying to find out where my grandfather was posted in Ireland during 1940-1941.  I have "googled" WW2 Irish bases and have found Mahon Barracks at Portadown, County Armagh.

There is an entry on my grandfathers record 24/6/1940 which says posted to 17 M C Coy RASC and the place looks like it could be "Mahon".

Does anyone know if British troops were posted to Mahon Barracks in WW2???

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Re: WW2 Army Record
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 06 September 09 17:13 BST (UK) »
If there were barracks in Northern Ireland, they would of course be filled with British troops! Well...Some had RAF and in 1942 the first American troops for the ETO landed in NI ;)

It was then, and of course remains part of the UK! ;D

County Armagh has been long associated with the British Army...It being border territory and parts of it known as "bandit country" in the 70s and 80s

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