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Johnny Doyle
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1920 Pattern Rolls-Royce in Cork with Hotchkiss machine gun on rear of turret.

17th (Armoured Car) Bn had been using Austins and Whippets armed with Hotchkiss MGs before being issued with Vickers armed Rolls-Royce cars.

Full image of Irish Examiner page :
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The first tanks appeared in Dublin in November 1917.

One of the tank commanders a Dubliner with his diary in the Tank Museum archives.

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A building sometimes labelled as the Dublin Bread Company building but it is slightly further up Sackville St from the DBC - Cathedral Street just behind it marking the end of the #EasterRising damage.

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A view of the building from another angle attached.
A couple of photos linked to the faked "Battle of Tralee" - pics taken in Dalkey, Co Dublin by Auxiliaries

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A nice set of images.

One Rolls-Royce armoured car in the set
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which ties in with the film clip re the Battle of Belleek and No 5 Armoured Car Company

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Metallica stand ins Metallicker unleashed
Cyril Peel moved unit a few times :

Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry) February 1916.

Awarded Belgian Croix de Guerre July 1918.

Tank Corps January 1919.

and returned to the 11th Hussars September 1920.

In Kent in the 1911 census with the XIth; in Egypt in the 1921 census with the XIth.
Amongst the Rolls-Royces the XIth had during their time in Egypt and Palestine was the Tank Museum armoured car.

Pictured in 1934 with the "top hat" on the turret and the front bumper fitted in 1927 in Shanghai with No 5 Armoured Car Company :

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A 1922 pic of XIth Hussars officer Dermot McMurrough-Kavanagh with text suggesting he was an MG expert www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyu...
11th Hussars
11th Hussars
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Picked up a copy of #RogueHeroes Dudley Clarkes' book re the XIth Hussars #RougeHeroes following a conversation at #WeHaveWays re armoured cars in the inter war period 🤓

Cherrypicking here 🙂 but the part re 2 MGs in 1914 vs 40 when the XIth went to Egypt in 1934 caught the eye 🙂
Co-op onshore call centre cocked-up. wAnchors.
Coming clean about homemade glue production
No, I'm not Basil Brush.
A collection of photos compiled for SDF member (and later President of Sudan) Ibrahim Abbood available at the UK National Archives, ref CO 1069/15.

Many of the photos available on the IWM site.
The photo on the cover of the Abyssinian Campaign appears in the Tales of the SDF by John Orlebar.

Copies available to view at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk and @durham-university.bsky.social

Orlebar's papers available at Durham :
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Brigadier Charles Gordon Stewart's photo album from his time in the SDF together with reports on various vehicles tested by the SDF available to view at the REME Museum, Lyneham by appointment.

An interesting career from apprenticeship at Vickers thru RAMC, RASC, RAOC and REME plus SDF secondment